In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation

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Case Number:

1:17-md-02804

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Court:

Ohio Northern

Nature of Suit:

P.I.: Other

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Dan Aaron Polster (MDL 28

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  1. May 16, 2022

    Doctors' Opioid Data Kept From Walgreens Stores, Judge Told

    Walgreens tracked the prescription habits of doctors but didn't make the database available to stores because it might "cloud" the judgment of a pharmacist filling a prescription, a judge heard in recorded testimony Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.

  2. May 16, 2022

    Counties Bungled $875M Ask After Opioid Trial, Judge Told

    A Stanford University professor told a judge Monday that three pharmacy chains should pay a small fraction of the roughly $875 million that two Northeast Ohio counties seek for the role a jury found the pharmacies played in the opioid crisis, arguing that the plaintiffs' experts botched some calculations.

  3. May 12, 2022

    Walgreens' Priority Was Filling Drug Orders Fast, Judge Told

    A former Walgreens pharmacist felt pressured to "fill, fill, fill" prescriptions while working at a pace that made her fear making fatal errors, a California federal judge heard in recorded testimony Thursday in a multibillion-dollar bellwether trial over claims Walgreens and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.

  4. May 11, 2022

    Walgreens' Opioid Orders Like A 'Time Bomb,' Judge Told

    The increasing numbers of opioids ordered by Walgreens pharmacies after 2010 felt like an uncontrollable "ticking time bomb," a former warehouse manager for the company said in recorded testimony screened Wednesday at a bellwether trial over claims the drugstore giant and others illegally fueled San Francisco's opioid epidemic.

  5. May 11, 2022

    Opioid Jurors Detail Talks As Pharmacy Trial Gets Feisty Start

    An opioid trial to determine remedies after a jury verdict against CVS, Walgreens and Walmart commenced colorfully and combatively Tuesday as plaintiffs counsel floated metaphors involving spaghetti and cake, pharmacies encountered judicial pushback when challenging a key expert, and former jurors took Law360 behind the scenes of their deliberations.

  6. May 10, 2022

    'Catastrophic' SF Opioid Death Toll Like AIDS Era, Judge Told

    The medical director overseeing San Francisco's health programs for the city's homeless population compared their "catastrophic" number of opioid deaths to the 1990s AIDS epidemic during testimony Tuesday in a bellwether federal trial over claims Walgreens, Allergan, Teva and Anda illegally fueled the public health crisis.

  7. May 09, 2022

    Massive Opioid Campaign Duped Docs, Bellwether Judge Told

    A Stanford addiction expert who's testified in numerous trials brought by governments blaming drugmakers and others for the opioid epidemic testified Monday in San Francisco that doctors, pharmacists and patients were exposed to a "massive misinformation campaign that downplayed the risks and overstated the benefits" of the addictive painkillers.

  8. May 06, 2022

    Pharmacies Face Key Trial Test As Opioid MDL Intrigue Swirls

    America's biggest pharmacy chains are poised for a pivotal trial at the center of multidistrict opioid litigation and the opioid crisis itself, aiming to avert a giant judgment and an enormous expansion of their broader liability in thousands of cases that are suddenly threatening to spiral out of control.

  9. April 27, 2022

    COVID-19 Cases Won't Stop SF's Opioid Bellwether Trial

    The California federal judge presiding over a multibillion-dollar bellwether bench trial on San Francisco's claim that Walgreens, Teva, Allergan and Anda illegally fueled its opioid crisis said Wednesday the trial will proceed despite individuals from both sides testing positive for COVID-19, calling it "an important case for everybody."

  10. April 27, 2022

    'Overheated Hyperbole'? Opioid Atty Gets Fiery In SF Trial

    Two days of opening statements in San Francisco's opioid crisis trial featured impassioned assertions about the pharmaceutical industry's role in rampant drug abuse, but a Foley & Lardner attorney stole the show with invective so intense that he cautioned the judge against ignoring it as "overheated hyperbole" from an overzealous advocate.