West Virginia won $99 million in a settlement with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals over its role in perpetuating the opioid epidemic that has wracked the state.
The settlement, announced Monday, will remove J&J from a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giants Teva and AbbVie’s Allergan for, what the state argues, has caused a"tsunami" of opioid addiction in West Virginia by misleading prescribers about the risks of opioid painkillers and marketing them too aggressively.“This settlement will provide significant help to those affected the most by the opioid crisis in West Virginia,” Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Monday.
Morrisey said the settlement amount with Janssen was considerably higher than what the state would have gotten in the massive 2021 national settlement, in which four drugmakers would pay a total of $26 billion to states and municipalities. West Virginia had opted out of that settlement agreement after finding out it would only be entitled to $48 million.
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