Setting the Stage for Thousands of Opioid Lawuits, Potentially Years of Litigation May 17, 2021 By Geoff Mulvihill A corner of West Virginia wrenched by opioid addiction is getting the chance to argue in a courtroom that some...
West Virginia’s Billion-Dollar Trial Against Opioid Distributors Gets Underway May 3, 2021 The three largest U.S. drug distributors, who are accused of helping fuel the opioid crisis that has resulted in nearly...
Trial in West Virginia Opioid Lawsuit Postponed Indefinitely December 9, 2020 A federal judge in West Virginia has indefinitely postponed a trial date in a lawsuit filed by the city of...
Trial Date Set for August in $1.25B West Virginia Opioid Settlement March 11, 2020 By Anthony Izaguirreirre West Virginia communities seeking a $1.25 billion settlement with the opioid industry are set to go on trial against the...
Drug Industry to Pay $1.25B to Settle Opioid Suits with West Virginia March 5, 2020 By Anthony Izaguirreirre and Geoff Mulvihill Communities in West Virginia say they would get $1.25 billion from the drug industry in a proposed settlement that would...
More States Could Settle Opioid Suits in Wake of West Virginia’s McKesson Deal May 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp.’s settlement of an opioid lawsuit with West Virginia — the state with the highest U.S. rate of drug-overdose...
McKesson to Pay $37M to Resolve West Virginia Opioid Suit May 6, 2019 By Nate Raymond Drug distributor McKesson Corp has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of West Virginia...
West Virginia Settles With Pharmacy Accused of Providing 10M Painkillers April 23, 2018 A pharmacy accused of dispensing millions of prescription pain pills in West Virginia has agreed to a $550,000 settlement with...
11 More West Virginia Towns, Counties Sue Over Opioid Crisis March 20, 2018 Eleven additional local West Virginia governments are suing drug companies who they say failed to follow state and federal law...
Judge Denies McKesson Bid to Keep Lawsuit Out of West Virginia County February 27, 2018 The nation’s largest prescription drug distributor has lost its bid to keep a lawsuit out of a West Virginia county....