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October 22, 2019

Four Drug Companies Reach Settlement with Two Ohio Counties
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In Ohio, four major drug companies have reached a last-minute deal to
settle with two Ohio counties that sued the drug distributors and
manufacturers over the opioid epidemic. The $260 million settlement
includes companies Amerisource Bergen, Cardinal Health, Mc Kesson and
Teva Pharmaceuticals. Just hours after this settlement was announced
Monday, a group of state attorneys general said they had reached a
tentative $48 billion agreement with the same four companies and Johnson
& Johnson. It's not clear whether the lawyers for the over 2,000 cities
and counties that have sued over the opioid epidemic will accept the
nationwide deal.


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