By Hailey Konnath

Philadelphia on Thursday sued CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum, accusing the pharmacy benefit managers of contributing to the city's opioid epidemic via deceptive marketing and conspiring with drugmakers to increase the sale of OxyContin and other prescription opioids.

By George Woolston

Indivior, Sun Pharmaceuticals and Zydus Pharmaceuticals have inked deals to compensate tribes for their role in the opioid crisis, according to stipulated dismissals entered on Wednesday in Ohio federal court.

By Cara Salvatore

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart on Wednesday grilled an economics expert witness over his opinion that they owe as much as $1.5 billion to a group of Florida hospitals that treated opioid-harmed patients, with defense counsel suggesting damages shouldn't be based on the full sticker price of the medical care.

By Emily Field

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday overturned a key ruling by a West Virginia judge in the first federal bellwether in multidistrict opioid litigation that went in favor of the country's three biggest drug distributors, finding that the oversupply of opioids can create a public nuisance.

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Court of Appeals has backed the dismissal of a lawsuit by Publix Supermarkets claiming a metro Atlanta county unconstitutionally hired outside counsel to pursue opioid litigation against the grocery chain, ruling Publix had "done nothing to assuage" the court's reasons for throwing out an almost identical suit earlier this year.