Upcoming trials seen as test cases for forcing drugmakers to pay for societal damage inflicted by the opioid epidemic should be delayed until Ohio's own lawsuits against the drugmakers can be heard, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued in a lawsuit.
Upcoming trials seen as test cases for forcing drugmakers to pay for societal damage inflicted by the opioid epidemic should be delayed until Ohio's own lawsuits against the drugmakers can be heard, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued in a lawsuit.
"The hardest-hit counties of Appalachia and the vast majority of the state are being asked to take a number and wait — and that wait could delay or prevent justice," Yost said in a statement. Many of those lawsuits target Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, a company seen as the villain in the opioid epidemic because of its aggressive marketing of the highly addictive painkiller. Published reports last week said the company was offering to settle for $10 billion to $12 billion, a move drawing criticism from some attorneys general who said it wasn't enough.
Horrigan's sentiments echo what happened earlier this year in Oklahoma, when the state settled with Purdue for $270 million. Many local governments in Oklahoma with their own lawsuits declined to request part of the money in order to pursue their own claims.
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