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Mapping The Top Trials To Know In The Opioid Litigation Wave

By Jeff Overley and Ben Jay

Opioid crisis lawsuits against major companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain are heating up in large numbers, producing a byzantine brew of battles in courts all across America. Here, Law360 provides a map that will continue to track completed, ongoing and upcoming trials.

Philly Atty Gets Harsher Discipline In NJ For Pill Mill Conviction

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for three years following his conviction for filling fraudulent opioid prescriptions in his side job as a part-time pharmacist, according to a recently filed order.

Ohio Justices Reject Opioid Nuisance Claims In $650M Appeal

By Emily Field

The majority of the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the state's product liability law doesn't allow for public nuisance claims to be brought over the opioid crisis, in a challenge to a $650 million verdict won by two counties.

Judge Denies Publix Bid To Appeal Opioid Coverage Ruling

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Friday rejected Publix's request for a judgment that would have allowed it to immediately appeal a decision that said seven of its insurance policies didn't provide coverage for opioid lawsuits the grocery chain is facing.

PBM Says Opioid Ruling Ignored High Court's Privilege Stance

By Gianna Ferrarin

A special master's ruling that internal audit records from Express Scripts Inc. are not protected by attorney-client privilege should be overturned because it contradicts nearly 40 years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the pharmacy benefit manager told an Ohio federal court overseeing multidistrict opioid litigation.

Insys Founder Kapoor Dropped From Del. Opioid Harm Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware state court has dropped Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John N. Kapoor from a 6-year-old lawsuit that originally sought damages from Insys, Kapoor and several Delaware opioid prescribers and suppliers, ruling that the state lacked jurisdiction to pursue him for alleged harm to three state residents, two of them pain management patients.


Expert Analysis

J.B. Heaton
Big Cos. Shouldn't Cry 'Settlement Pressure' To Justify Appeal

By J.B. Heaton

The Sixth Circuit was correct to find that intense pressure to settle doesn't earn opioid case defendants Walgreens and Walmart an interlocutory appeal or new trial on liability, as that argument applies only when a defendant is risk averse, a notion not suited to large public corporations, says J.B. Heaton at One Hat Research.

Jeb White
Amid Historic Spending, Congress Should Strengthen FCA

By Jeb White

Notwithstanding the misleadingly rosy picture painted by the U.S. Department of Justice’s fiscal year 2021 False Claims Act recovery statistics, Congress should close legislative gaps that deter whistleblower actions, especially in light of increasingly high government spending and adjacent opportunities to misuse public funds, says Jeb White at Taxpayers Against Fraud.

Suzanne Jaffe Bloom
What Cos. Can Learn From The 2021 FCA Recovery Statistics

By Suzanne Jaffe Bloom, Benjamin Sokoly and Jack Cartwright

Attorneys at Winston unpack the recently released U.S. Department of Justice False Claims Act recovery statistics for fiscal year 2021, discuss how they compare to prior years and what companies in an expanding array of industries should expect next.

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