Hospital Opioids Case Moves Forward in MDL
Don Barrett APRIL 23, 2020
America’s hospitals are heroes.
Every day you hear new stories of bravery in our health care system’s fight against COVID-19 – heroic efforts from doctors and nurses to save lives, heal families, restore futures. If they seem like well-trained warriors, it’s because, our nation’s hospitals are not new to the frontlines of battle.
For the past 20 years, hospitals have been fighting, and continue to fight, the nation’s opioid epidemic. Overdoses involving both prescription and illicit opioids claimed almost 450,000 lives from 1999-2018.
I represent more than 650 hospitals in their lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies in both federal and state courts around the country, including hospitals in the opioid multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the Northern District of Ohio before Judge Dan Polster.