First Opioid Bellwether Trial Settles, Thousands of Cases Remain
The first bellwether trial in the opioid multi-district litigation was scheduled to begin today, October 21 in Ohio. However, prior
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A More Nuanced Look at the Washington Post’s ‘Bizarre Opioid Story’
Barely a month after the nation’s largest trade association of personal injury lawyers conducted a “Rapid Response: Opioid Litigation Seminar,” teaching attendees how they might cash in on such litigation, the Washington Post and CBS’s 60 Minutes partnered to break Sunday’s big story that alleges the pharmaceutical industry showered members of Congress with campaign contributions in order to pass legislation, adopted unanimously in both the House and Senate and signed into law by President Obama, which effectively restrained efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to rein in illicit distribution of federally approved prescription painkillers
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