The case is about the conduct of a group of companies in two Ohio counties, but far more than that is riding on the first federal trial on the opioid crisis, expected to open Monday in Cleveland. It’s really about an epidemic,” said Carl Tobias, a professor in the law school at the University of Richmond. State, local and tribal governments plus hospitals and others have filed a total of more than 2,600 lawsuits against drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies seeking to hold them accountable for the nation’s opioid crisis, which has been linked to more than 400,000 deaths …read more
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