The four companies -- McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. -- reached a settlement Monday morning with the two plaintiffs, Summit and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio. McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. will pay out a combined $215 million immediately, and Teva Pharmaceutical will pay $20 million, officials said at a press conference Monday.
Purdue Pharma faces 2,000 lawsuits and files for bankruptcy 00:50The defendants were supposed to appear in a Cleveland court Monday in the first federal multidistrict litigation trial involving the opioid epidemic. Thousands more plaintiffs' cases are awaiting trial.MDL is similar to class-action lawsuits in the sense that both consolidate plaintiffs' pretrial proceedings, for the sake of efficiency.
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Pennies on the dollar
Sifill_LDF I sure wish they had the same “do good” attitude with African-Americans when the crack epidemic was in our areas, as they did with opioids problems in the white areas. 😡IJS
Sifill_LDF That’s nothing!
They should pay for every funeral too.
130 people die EVERY DAY from opioid overdose. The economic burden of prescription opioid misuse is $78.5 mill a YEAR. This $260 mill settlement is letting the pharmecutical companies who created it off easy.
Healthcare 'professionals' and the 'justice' system pushing unethical laws and regulations using fear mongering and scare tactics making people with chronic pain suffer are unethical scum that belong in prison.
is there a typo on the tweet? shouldn't it be 260 billions? those 4 pharmaceutical companies can find 260 millions on their couch.
Pocket change.
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