Mealey's (January 5, 2023, 4:58 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — United Policyholders filed an amicus curiae brief in support of a prescription drug distributor insured’s appeal of a lower federal court’s ruling that underlying lawsuits prompted by the opioid epidemic fail to allege an “accident” under California law, arguing to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the lower court’s “conclusion is contrary to the very purpose of insurance as it has developed over the course of many centuries.”...