Baron & Budd, Greene Ketchum, Levin Papantonio File Suit Against Pharmaceutical Distributors for Role in Creating Opioid Crisis in Four Ohio Counties
Lawsuits allege Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson Corp. created public nuisance by failing to regulate orders of prescription opiates
The Counties allege that three Fortune 500 pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson Corp. – each played a role in creating a public nuisance by failing to regulate orders of prescription opiates. The following cases were filed on
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Vinton County Board of County Commissioners v.AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation , Cardinal Health, Inc., and McKesson Corporation: Case No.: 2:17-cv-665 -
Belmont County Board of County Commissioners v.AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation , Cardinal Health, Inc., and McKesson Corporation: Case No.: 2:17-cv-663 -
Clermont County Board of County Commissioners v.AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation , Cardinal Health, Inc., and McKesson Corporation: Case No.: 2:17-cv-662 -
Brown County Board of County Commissioners v.AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation , Cardinal Health, Inc., and McKesson Corporation: Case No.: 2:17-cv-00664
“It’s easy to think addicts or a small number of bad doctors are to blame for this problem. But responsibility for the opioid epidemic rests with the pharmaceutical industry – and in particular the pharmaceutical distributors who were entrusted with reporting suspicious orders and halting orders of these dangerous drugs,” said Baron & Budd Shareholder,
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