Johnson & Johnson settles for $20m in Ohio to avoid opioids crisis trial

Posted on AllSides October 2nd, 2019
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Pharmaceutical and baby products giant Johnson & Johnson has announced it has reached an agreement worth just over $20m with two Ohio counties, becoming the latest company to settle a lawsuit to get out of the first federal trial over the nation’s opioids crisis.

The deal with Cuyahoga and Summit counties comes a little more than a month after an Oklahoma judge ordered the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based health care conglomerate to pay $572m over its marketing of opioids in that state.

It was announced less than three weeks before...

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/02/johnson-johnson-settlement-ohio-case

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