![]() ![]() Walmart and CVS settled with the state last September: Walmart agreed to a settlement of $65,070,000 CVS for $82.5 million. Walgreens settled in January for $83 million. Morrisey said the deal won’t prevent West Virginia from also receiving dollars from any future national settlement with the chain. While the biggest amounts are in nationwide settlements, West Virginia – perhaps the state hardest hit by the prescription drug overdose crisis – has been aggressive in bringing its own lawsuits and reaching more than a dozen settlements. Over the past four years, drug manufacturers, distribution companies, pharmacies and other companies with roles in the opioid business have reached settlements totaling more than $50 billion with governments. “Our hope is that the money would provide significant help to those affected the most by this crisis in the state.” The money won’t bring back the lives that have been lost from “the opioid menace,“ Morissey said. ![]() The settlement with Kroger resolves the lawsuit that alleged the pharmacy chain failed to maintain effective controls as an opioid distributer in the state, contributing to oversupply that helped fuel a crisis that has claimed the lives of thousands of residents. The state had been scheduled to go to trial with the pharmacy chain in June. Kroger was the last remaining defendant in a lawsuit involving Walgreens, Walmart, CVS and Rite Aid. “Let this be a warning to others: We fight hard for those affected the most by the opioid epidemic and will stop at nothing in getting justice for them,” he said. That brings West Virginia’s total opioid litigation dollars up to more than $1 billion, more than any other state per capita, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said at a press conference at the state Capitol in Charleston. state that has lost more lives to opioid overdoses per capita than any other. (AP) - West Virginia has settled with Kroger for $68 million over its role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers into the U.S. ![]()
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