BREAKING: Walmart, CVS and Walgreens ordered to pay $650 million to Ohio counties for opioid crisis
The counties convinced the jury that the pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication.
Walmart issued a statement Wednesday saying the counties “sued Walmart in search of deep pockets, and this judgment follows a trial that was engineered to favor the plaintiffs’ attorneys and was riddled with remarkable legal and factual mistakes.” Mark Lanier, an attorney for the counties, said during the trial that the pharmacies were attempting to blame everyone but themselves.
The problem, he said, was that “pharmaceutical manufacturers tricked doctors into writing way too many pills.”
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