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Inside the $70B Opioid Litigation and the New Battle Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Key Takeaways
Paul Farrell Jr. led the legal strategy that recovered approximately $70 billion in national opioid settlements by filing lawsuits against every level of the pharmaceutical supply chain.
The settlement funds are legally structured within all 50 states to guarantee they are spent strictly on addiction treatment and abatement rather than disappearing into general government budgets.
The litigation began by utilizing an overlooked West Virginia code section that grants county commissioners explicit legal standing to sue corporations for creating a public nuisance.
While the cases…
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