Civil Plaintiff
A Georgia County Is Set to Receive $3.5 Million From an Opioid Settlement With Rite Aid
Cobb County commissioners will vote next week on acceptance of a $3.5 million settlement from pharmacy chain Rite Aid as part of a multi-jurisdictional lawsuit against opioid distributors and manufacturers.
The settlement, split between Cobb, Ohio’s Montgomery County, and North Carolina’s Durham County, totals $10.5 million, with the local governments to each receive a third of the sum.
Cobb first joined the lawsuit in 2018 as local and state governments nationwide began suing manufacturers like Purdue Pharma, which produces OxyContin, for damages from the opioid epidemic.
