The opioid crisis in America is one of the most complicated public health issues ever to grip the nation. Whether it’s a discussion of the root causes of the epidemic and the roles of the corporations who make the drugs or the culture of prescription dependency that led the medical community to dole the pills out in such abundance in the first place, there is no simple answer to the ...
Opioid MDL Judge Wants DEA Data
Posted March 13, 2018 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
Judge in Opioid MDL Aims for Action
Posted March 1, 2018 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
“About 150 Americans are going to die today, just today, while we’re meeting. And in my humble opinion, everyone shares some of the responsibility, and no one has done enough to abate it.”
These are the words that U.S. District Judge Dan Polster of Cleveland, Ohio used to greet the lawyers representing the two sides of the opioid epidemic earlier this year. “People aren’t ...
continue reading...Philadelphia Joins Growing List of Governments Suing Over Opioid Crisis
Posted January 30, 2018 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
Philadelphia may be the sixth largest city in the nation, but it has the highest opioid overdose rate of all large cities in the United States. And, earlier this month, it took action against several companies for their roles in fueling what it believes has become a “public health nightmare.”
In a 160-page lawsuit filed in the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, the City accuses a number of ...
continue reading...Internal Records Detail McKesson Failure to Monitor Opioid Shipments
Posted January 25, 2018 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
Every 19 minutes, someone in the United States dies from an opioid overdose. The epidemic of abuse of powerful prescription painkillers in this country has reached unthinkable proportions. And, one company that is pumping millions of pills into small towns and big cities alike is taking absolutely no responsibility for their role.
Records of corporate board meetings are among the most tightly held secrets a company ...
continue reading...Judge with No MDL Experience Deemed Unqualified to Preside over Opioid MDL
Posted January 9, 2018 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
A former judge and now private practice attorney was openly laughed at during an MDL panel in Illinois when she suggested they should give a nation’s worth of opioid cases to a judge who had never presided over a national litigation.
Ann Callis, formerly a chief judge in Madison County, Illinois and now practicing law privately as an attorney addressed the panel in late November and requested that every opioid-related lawsuit be transferred under U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle. The exchange ...
continue reading...Opiates vs. Opioids: The Differences and Why They Matter
Posted November 17, 2017 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
Over the last 20 years, the opioid crisis in the United States has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and devastated the families of countless others. The drugs are highly addictive, and are frequently over-prescribed by physicians for everything from hernias to the pain women face after C-sections.
Some of the finer details involved in the epidemic are getting lost due to the drugs’ phonetic and alphabetic similarity to ...
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