Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy waits for State Supreme Court Judge Jerry Garguilo to arrive on the first day of the Opioid Litigation at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center auditorium in Islip, New York, in June 2021. (Photo: Ryland West/ALM)
Five years after lawsuits first hit the courts, several high-profile trials over the opioid crisis began in 2021.
The trials have taken place before judges and juries, and in state and federal courts. They involved a mix of cities, counties and states as plaintiffs, and an assortment of defendants generally categorized into three groups: manufacturers and distributors of opiates, and pharmacies.
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