Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: A Bench Trial Begins Over Billions In Opioid Costs. Judge Issues Rare Class Certification of Marriott Data Breach Victims
May 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM
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Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. An abatement trial began in Cleveland against three pharmacies found liable for the opioid crisis. In a groundbreaking order, a federal judge certified classes of Marriott guests impacted by the hotel's 2018 data breach. Find out who is representing Ellume in a class action brought over its recalled COVID-19 test kits, which produced false positive results.
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CVS Pharmacy How Much Will Pharmacies Pay For Opioid Crisis?
A bench trial began Tuesday to determine how much two Ohio counties who won the first jury verdict over the opioid crisis should get in abatement funds.
Here are the details: U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, in Cleveland, is overseeing the trial, which follows a Nov. 23 verdict of liability against three pharmacies: CVS, Walgreens and Walmart. Lead plaintiffs' attorney W. Mark Lanier (The Lanier Law Firm) has said he would ask for $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion for each of the two Ohio counties. Walgreens, which just settled a jury trial against the state of Florida, is represented by Jeff Hall (Bartlit Beck) and Kat Hacker (Bartlit Beck). The trial is expected to last 10 days.
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