August 05, 2022
A West Virginia federal judge contravened long-standing precedent when he sided with drug distributors last month after a major opioid crisis trial, the Mountain State's Mass Litigation Panel said in a ruling against national pharmacy chains that are approaching a similar trial.
August 02, 2022
A West Virginia county on Tuesday said it was appealing a verdict in favor of the nation's three largest drug distributors in the first federal bellwether trial over the opioid crisis, a day after the companies inked a $400 million deal to end similar claims from other cities in the state.
August 01, 2022
The nation's three largest drug distributors — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — have agreed to pay $400 million to end claims from West Virginia cities and counties that claim the pharmaceutical giants flooded the area with huge shipments of opioids and created a public nuisance, the state attorney general announced Monday.
August 01, 2022
More trials are expected to start over claims that drug companies fueled the opioid crisis, and e-cigarette giant Juul is set to face its first case in multidistrict litigation over allegations it misrepresented the safety of its wares. Here is Law360's list of product liability cases to watch for the rest of the year.
July 25, 2022
One of America's largest distributors of prescription opioids went on trial in an epicenter of opioid abuse and emerged victorious this month by deploying a legal strategy that melded compassion and confidence, the company's lead counsel at Reed Smith LLP told Law360 in an interview.
July 21, 2022
A spree of remarkable rulings has already made 2022 a jaw-dropping year for health care and pharmaceutical law, where the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped abortion rights, opioid crisis prosecutions, Medicare's rulemaking powers and vital sources of hospital income. At the midyear mark, Law360 recaps the rulings and analyzes their implications.
July 21, 2022
In post-trial filings Wednesday, San Francisco argued Walgreens' failure to prevent the diversion of "dangerous and highly addictive" opioids it distributed and dispensed "substantially contributed" to the city's opioid crisis, while the pharmacy giant held firm that the case lacked evidence of any harm by an opioid it sold.
July 19, 2022
Major product liability cases so far in 2022 include a ruling in West Virginia against local governments seeking relief from drug distributors for the opioid crisis and a historic settlement with gunmaker Remington to end claims brought by the families of Sandy Hook victims. Here, Law360 looks at key cases from the first half of the year.
July 19, 2022
Johnson & Johnson wants an Ohio federal court to toss opioid claims made against the company by a host of New York municipalities, saying a change to an Empire State law bars those allegations.
July 13, 2022
Rite Aid Corp. has struck deals worth $10.5 million to exit three opioid-crisis cases hurtling toward bellwether trials in multidistrict litigation and to shield the pharmacy chain for 18 months from any other test cases in the MDL, according to plaintiffs counsel and an agreement marked confidential.