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Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. were ordered to pay $650 million over their failure to properly monitor opioid prescriptions in two counties in Ohio.
A federal judge in Cleveland ruled Wednesday that the companies had to pay “abatement” fees to help local officials deal with the fallout from the public health crisis created by improper sales of millions of opioid-based painkillers.
The ruling comes after a jury found in November that the three had helped create that crisis — the drug industry’s latest loss in the expanding litigation over the painkillers.
