Johnson & Johnson settles for $20m in Ohio to avoid opioids crisis trial
Posted on AllSides October 2nd, 2019
From The Left
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...