McKesson Corp and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd joined a request to reject a 7% fee levied against any settlements. A consolidated list of lawsuits alleges the crisis led to the deaths of 400,000 people in the U.S. since 1999. A trial is expected to begin Friday, March 20 in New York.
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Drug Companies: Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Fees Could Derail Settlement Talks
Johnson & Johnson, along with other drug companies facing “thousands” of lawsuits related to the U.S. opioid epidemic are concerned settlement talks will be jeopardized if the plaintiffs’ lawyers are permitted to “assess a fee payment worth billions of dollars.” So reports Reuters.
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