Tagged: opioid epidemic

Settlement Reached in the First Federal Opioids Trial

This post is an update from our earlier blog post, available here, on the bellwether federal opioids trial in the Northern District of Ohio.  Just hours prior to the start of the trial in a consolidated case involving two plaintiff counties in Ohio, all of the remaining defendants in the case, except Walgreens, reached a...

Drug Companies Preview Trial Defenses for Bellwether Opioid Trial

In the last several years, thousands of cities and counties, as well as most states, have sued various combinations of pharmaceutical manufacturers, retailers, and distributors for damages allegedly caused by the opioid epidemic.  Nearly 2,000 of those cases have been consolidated into a multi-district litigation (“MDL”) in the Northern District of Ohio. Until very recently,...