It’s calling for all the companies to put money into a fund in exchange for having all their lawsuits resolved. The committee includes victims of the opioid crisis plus a medical center, a health insurer, a prescription benefit management company, the manufacturer of an addiction treatment drug and a pension insurer. More than 2,000 other state and local governments plus Native American tribes, hospitals and other groups have made similar claims. ADADThere have been talks aimed at settling all claims against the drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and Teva and the distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson ahead of the trial. The committee’s proposal went to those five companies plus nine others that face lawsuits.

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2019 04:30 UTC