NPR News: Lawyer Behind West Virginia County Lawsuit Against Opioid Distributors

Lawyer Behind West Virginia County Lawsuit Against Opioid Distributors
Pharmaceutical distributors — the middle men in the opioid epidemic — have already been paying out millions to federal and state law enforcement officials for the companies' role in the crisis. But a new front in the legal battle against opioids has opened. One personal injury lawyer in small-town West Virginia has come up with a creative legal theory to go after these distributors so that small, ravaged communities can collect too.

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April 21, 2017 at 03:31AM
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