In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:17-md-02804

Court:

Ohio Northern

Nature of Suit:

P.I.: Other

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Dan Aaron Polster (MDL 28

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May 12, 2022
Walgreens' Priority Was Filling Drug Orders Fast, Judge Told

A former Walgreens pharmacist felt pressured to "fill, fill, fill" prescriptions while working at a pace that made her fear making fatal errors, a California federal judge heard in recorded testimony Thursday in a multibillion-dollar bellwether trial over claims Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
May 11, 2022
Walgreens' Opioid Orders Like A 'Time Bomb,' Judge Told

The increasing numbers of opioids ordered by Walgreens pharmacies after 2010 felt like an uncontrollable "ticking time bomb," a former warehouse manager for the company said in recorded testimony screened Wednesday at a bellwether trial over claims the drugstore giant and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.
May 11, 2022
Opioid Jurors Detail Talks As Pharmacy Trial Gets Feisty Start

An opioid trial to determine remedies after a jury verdict against CVS, Walgreens and Walmart commenced colorfully and combatively Tuesday as plaintiffs counsel floated metaphors involving spaghetti and cake, pharmacies encountered judicial pushback when challenging a key expert, and former jurors took Law360 behind the scenes of their deliberations.
May 10, 2022
'Catastrophic' SF Opioid Death Toll Like AIDS Era, Judge Told

The medical director overseeing San Francisco's health programs for the city's homeless population compared their "catastrophic" number of opioid deaths to the 1990s AIDS epidemic during testimony Tuesday in a bellwether federal trial over claims Walgreens, Allergan, Teva and Anda illegally fueled the public health crisis.
May 09, 2022
Massive Opioid Campaign Duped Docs, Bellwether Judge Told

A Stanford addiction expert who's testified in numerous trials brought by governments blaming drugmakers and others for the opioid epidemic testified Monday in San Francisco that doctors, pharmacists and patients were exposed to a "massive misinformation campaign that downplayed the risks and overstated the benefits" of the addictive painkillers.
May 06, 2022
Pharmacies Face Key Trial Test As Opioid MDL Intrigue Swirls

America's biggest pharmacy chains are poised for a pivotal trial at the center of multidistrict opioid litigation and the opioid crisis itself, aiming to avert a giant judgment and an enormous expansion of their broader liability in thousands of cases that are suddenly threatening to spiral out of control.
April 27, 2022
COVID-19 Cases Won't Stop SF's Opioid Bellwether Trial

The California federal judge presiding over a multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial on San Francisco's claim that Walgreens, Teva, Allergan and Anda illegally fueled its opioid crisis said Wednesday the trial will proceed despite individuals from both sides testing positive for COVID-19, calling it "an important case for everybody."
April 27, 2022
'Overheated Hyperbole'? Opioid Atty Gets Fiery In SF Trial

Two days of opening statements in San Francisco's opioid crisis trial featured impassioned assertions about the pharmaceutical industry's role in rampant drug abuse, but a Foley & Lardner attorney stole the show with invective so intense that he cautioned the judge against ignoring it as "overheated hyperbole" from an overzealous advocate.
April 26, 2022
'Small Fish' Drugmakers Blame Purdue In SF Opioid Trial

Drugmakers Teva and Allergan deflected blame for San Francisco's opioid crisis in opening statements of a multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial Tuesday, saying they're "small fish" responsible for a "minuscule portion" of the city's opioids, and pointing to bankrupt Purdue Pharma as the true culprit.
April 25, 2022
SF Opens Key Opioid Bellwether Trial Vowing To Reveal 'Lies'

The city of San Francisco kicked off an epic multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial Monday in its suit alleging drugstore chain Walgreens, drugmakers Teva and Allergan and distributor Anda illegally fueled the opioid epidemic, promising to reveal "the myths, the lies and the misleading statements" that fed the crisis and ravaged the city.

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