A federal jury in Cleveland on Tuesday found that the companies owning CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies were liable for contributing to the opioid epidemic in two Ohio counties-the first, potentially influential verdict among many lawsuits targeting pharmacy chains.
In the suit, attorneys for Lake and Trumbull counties in northeastern Ohio had argued that the chains failed to stop pain pills from flooding the counties and false prescriptions from being filled.
The counties argued that by enabling the opioid crisis the pharmacy companies had created a public nuisance costing them each about $1 billion in law-enforcement, social-services and court expenses.
Similar cases across the country continue to play out against pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, but Tuesday's verdict was the first against deep-pocketed pharmacy chains.
Although judges in opioid cases in Oklahoma and California recently issued judgments against plaintiffs' public-nuisance claims in cases involving drugmakers, some legal experts said it was difficult to say whether the Ohio case could meet a similar fate on appeal.
Judge Polster has consolidated lawsuits that more than 3,000 communities have filed against drug manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies and has chosen some cases as bellwethers.
The companies had denied wrongdoing in court documents.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Walgreens, Walmart and CVS Pharmacies Contributed to Opioid Epidemic, Ohio Jury Finds
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