The Evolution Of Opioid Suits And Insurance Coverage

By Adam Fleischer (June 19, 2017, 4:40 PM EDT) -- In the midst of the worst drug crisis in American history, two key developments took place last week that could have far-reaching impacts on both the underlying liability claims as well as the insurers to who the defendants are looking to finance hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure. First, a new lawsuit in Tennessee seeks to subject legal distributors of prescription opioids to the same civil damages as the state provides for illegal drug dealers. As that unique theory evolves, a large group of national attorneys general banded together last week to join forces in using their unique civil enforcement mechanisms to continue the pursuit of tens of millions of dollars in recoveries from those companies that have profited to date from prescription opioids....

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