--The CVS drug store company and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida a combined$ 860 million as part of the settlement of an opioid epidemic case, state officials said Wednesday. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said CVS Health Corp. and CVS Pharmacy Inc. will pay the state$ 484 million.... Another company, Endo Health Solutions, is also settling for$ 65 million, Moody said.“ The opioid epidemic is wreaking havoc on Florida families, ” Moody said in a news release.... A handful of c

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— West Virginia will receive$ 99 million in a settlement finalized Monday with Johnson Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over the drugmaker’s role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the state that has long led the nation in drug overdose deaths. State Atty.... The company no longer sells prescription opioid medications in the U.S., according to the release. Morrisey said West Virginia’s cities and counties could start seeing the settlement money within 45 days

NEW YORK--The state of New York and two large counties agreed Thursday a$ 50 million deal to end their lawsuits with drugmaker Endo International, in the latest of a progression of settlements of government claims over the opioid addiction and overdose crisis. Under the deal announced Thursday night, the Dublin-based drugmaker and its subsidiary Par are to pay$ 22.3 million to the state attorney general's office and$ 13.85 million to both Suffolk and Nassau counties. Endo, which also settled cla

SAN FRANCISCO--Drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay the city of San Francisco$ 10 million over its role in selling prescription opioids in the city. City Attorney David Chiu announced the settlement Wednesday, five days before a trial is to begin of the city's claims against the drug industry over the toll of opioids. Chiu said Endo, the maker of the prescription painkiller Percocet, is to pay$ 5 million this year and another$ 5 million over the next decade, with the money being used

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The effort to hold drug companies, pharmacies and distributors accountable for their role in the opioid crisis has led to a whirlwind of legal activity around the U.S. that can be difficult keep tabs on. Three trials are underway now, in Florida, West Virginia and Washington state.... The company's Janssen subsidiary stopped selling its fentanyl patches and pain pills in the U.S.in 2020.... JJ was also the first drugmaker to be held liable for the opioid crisis in a trial, though the Oklahoma

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As deplorably as Sackler family members are alleged to have behaved, this epidemic was too complex for one group to have created.... It was just the second such case to go to trial, after an Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson Johnson to pay$ 465 million in 2019.... The company is appealing that decision.A similar trial is underway in federal court in West Virginia, where local governments sued the nation’s three biggest drug-distribution companies: AmerisourceBergen Drug, Cardinal Health and McKes

The money would go for things like ongoing opioid abuse prevention and treatment programs in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties. The California case was the first such U.S. lawsuit when it was filed in 2014, prosecutors said at the time.... But thousands of similar lawsuits have since been filed nationwide by cities, counties and states.It was just the second such case to go to trial, after an Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson Johnson to pay$ 465 million in 2019.... Johnson Johnson has said it