February 10, 2023
The federal judge overseeing nationwide opioid litigation refused Friday to delay business practice changes at CVS, Walgreens and Walmart locations in two Ohio counties, pressuring the pharmacies to adopt the changes in nationwide settlements and rectify "unfortunate" omissions.
February 06, 2023
Missouri bank UMB "egregiously" mismanaged the collection of prominent 20th-century painter Thomas Hart Benton through four decades of sweetheart sales to executives, art museums and bank customers, and failed to care for and monetize his intellectual property, a judge heard as trial started Monday.
February 03, 2023
A Georgia fire captain took the stand Friday as the first plaintiff to testify in a private opioid trial against major drug distributors, telling jurors the drugs exacted a heavy toll on his relatives and their relationships.
January 31, 2023
A Georgia jury weighing claims that major drug distributors fueled addiction heard Tuesday from a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who testified that the regulator repeatedly investigated Cardinal Health and McKesson warehouses nationwide and found the distributors weren't properly controlling dangerous drugs.
January 30, 2023
Nearly two dozen Georgians went to trial Monday against opioid distributors over claims the companies share blame for their family members' addictions, previewing some of the most personal stories told thus far in nationwide opioid litigation.
January 17, 2023
Michigan's first wave of funds from a national settlement with opioid distributors and manufacturers can start to flow to local governments after a federal court dismissed one county's challenge to how the funds were apportioned.
January 03, 2023
While many Americans were bringing glad tidings and popping bubbly, attorneys spent the final week of 2022 bringing lawsuits, appeals and other court filings of eye-popping significance for health care providers and drug companies in cases involving the False Claims Act, the opioid crisis and purported price-fixing schemes.
January 02, 2023
Before the New Year's Eve confetti has even been swept up, lawyers specializing in health care and life sciences already have enough litigation to keep them busy for much of 2023, which is kicking off with federal courts eyeing suits that carry sweeping significance for administrative law, the False Claims Act, drug approvals, the opioid crisis and abortion rights.
December 13, 2022
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday threw out challenges to a common benefit order in the sprawling opioid multidistrict litigation that sets aside a portion of future settlements to pay plaintiffs' counsel, saying the challengers don't have standing to undo the order through an appeal.
December 12, 2022
Walgreens and CVS have nailed down the final details of their $10.7 billion deal with 18 states to end claims that they contributed to the national opioid crisis, according to statements Monday from multiple state attorneys general.