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Mallinckrodt reaches settlement with 'bellwether' counties in mammoth opioid lawsuit
Source: Washington Post
Mallinckrodt reaches settlement with ‘bellwether’ counties in mammoth opioid lawsuit
By Lenny Bernstein, Sari Horwitz and Scott HighamSeptember 6 at 4:15 PM
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced Friday it has reached a “settlement in principle” with two Ohio counties scheduled to go to trial next month against an array of pharmaceutical companies over responsibility for the opioid crisis.
Under the deal, Mallinckrodt would pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties $24 million in cash and donate $6 million in drugs, including addiction treatment medications.
The proposed deal would take Ireland-based Mallinckrodt off the list of defendants facing the two counties in a test case of whether the drug industry should be forced to pay for the prescription opioid epidemic, which has killed more than 200,000 people since 1999.
More than 2,000 counties, cities, Native American tribes and others have sued those companies, seeking compensation for the costs of emergency care, drug treatment, law enforcement and other costs. Their cases have been consolidated before a federal judge in Cleveland.
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By Lenny Bernstein, Sari Horwitz and Scott HighamSeptember 6 at 4:15 PM
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced Friday it has reached a “settlement in principle” with two Ohio counties scheduled to go to trial next month against an array of pharmaceutical companies over responsibility for the opioid crisis.
Under the deal, Mallinckrodt would pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties $24 million in cash and donate $6 million in drugs, including addiction treatment medications.
The proposed deal would take Ireland-based Mallinckrodt off the list of defendants facing the two counties in a test case of whether the drug industry should be forced to pay for the prescription opioid epidemic, which has killed more than 200,000 people since 1999.
More than 2,000 counties, cities, Native American tribes and others have sued those companies, seeking compensation for the costs of emergency care, drug treatment, law enforcement and other costs. Their cases have been consolidated before a federal judge in Cleveland.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/mallinckrodt-reaches-settlement-with-bellwether-counties-in-mammoth-opioid-lawsuit/2019/09/06/1e8a19f8-d0d9-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html