Consumer Law
A Landmark Federal Opioid Lawsuit Presents Its Closing Arguments
Three major U.S. drug distributors should be held responsible for sending a “tsunami” of prescription pain pills that caused a health crisis in one corner of West Virginia, an attorney for local governments said in closing arguments Tuesday in a landmark federal lawsuit.
Distributors AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. distributed 81 million pills into Cabell County and the city of Huntington over eight years.
The lawsuit by the city and the county accused the companies of creating a “public nuisance” with the onslaught and ignoring the signs that the community of about 100,000 people along the Ohio River was being ravaged by addiction.
