December 06, 2018
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday denied a request from plaintiffs representing "opioid babies" — infants of mothers who were addicted to prescription drugs — to separate their suits into a distinct multidistrict litigation, ruling that their unique damages don't outweigh the inconvenience caused by such a separation.
December 04, 2018
An Ohio federal judge on Tuesday refused nearly two dozen Indian tribes' request to conduct further discovery of federal contracts so they can avoid being treated disparately from government entities in an ongoing opioid multidistrict litigation, ruling that the court has already identified cases that discuss the tribes' legal issues.
November 29, 2018
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation appeared disinclined Thursday to create a new MDL for "opioid babies" whose mothers used prescription narcotics, sharply questioning whether such a move would actually expedite the infants' suits.
November 21, 2018
A federal judge has shot down a bid from drug companies that sought to block local Ohio governments with bellwether cases in multidistrict litigation over the opioid crisis from being able to recover damages at trial.
November 09, 2018
The Ohio federal judge overseeing massive multidistrict litigation over the nation's opioid crisis granted a request by lead attorneys for local governments to distribute market share data, from a federal database, of opioid sales to counties and other entities.
November 07, 2018
Lead attorneys for local governments suing over the opioid crisis on Wednesday told the Ohio federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation that since the U.S. Department of Justice does not oppose releasing market share data from a federal database of opioid sales, opioid makers and distributors have no grounds to oppose it either.
November 05, 2018
Opioid distributors have asked the Ohio federal judge overseeing the opioid multidistrict litigation to have the Ohio Supreme Court weigh in on whether the state's product liability laws annul negligence and public nuisance claims against a supplier of products.
November 02, 2018
Local Ohio governments with bellwether cases in multidistrict litigation over the opioid crisis have "willfully defied" a court order to identify allegedly improper prescriptions and should be blocked from recovering damages at trial, drug companies have told an Ohio federal judge.
October 22, 2018
A special master on Sunday said that local governments suing drugmakers over the opioid crisis in multidistrict litigation should provide opioid manufacturers with patient data for opioid prescriptions, along with other information, so that the companies can match the information in other databases.
October 16, 2018
An Ohio federal judge supervising multidistrict litigation over the opioid crisis ruled Tuesday that local governments suing drug companies must either identify specific prescriptions that were improper or limit their use of related evidence.