Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Jul. 21, 2021
State’s opioid trial goes on, seeks twice the amount of global settlement
The Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee nearing a $26 million global deal with opioid distributors said litigation such as the three-month-old bench trial in Orange County in which plaintiffs seek $50 billion to abate the opioid crisis in California, “will continue in parallel with the settlement process.”
Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors are nearing a $26 billion global settlement with thousands of municipalities that claim the companies fueled an opioid crisis, but Los Angeles and other government entities in California continued to fight for a much larger sum in a bench trial in Orange County on Tuesday.
Three major drug distributors, McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp., will pay $21 billion...
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