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SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - A pain specialist doctor called as a witness for the defense in the trial of three opioid drug distributors accused of causing an overdose epidemic in Washington State indicated on Wednesday that the majority of doctors did the best they could, even if over-prescribing pain pills.

The Queen’s platinum jubilee year was marked by St John's Church in Kensal Green with a symbol of eternity.

Some US litigation options increasingly present “severe” consequences for corporate leaders.

SIR – Sir Graham Brady (“We must end this disastrous assault on liberty”, Comment, December 12) gives some hope that the Government is powerless to extend restrictions on our freedoms.

SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Defense attorneys on Tuesday sought to portray their clients, three of the biggest distributors of opioid drugs in the U.S., as taking appropriate steps in the early 2000s through 2014 to safeguard the public by establishing in-house systems to check suspicious drug orders.

MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency startup that counts founder Moxie Marlinspike of the encrypted messaging app Signal as its earliest technical advisor, has raised $66 million in Series B funding from a long list of investors. Among them is Alameda Research, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Vy Capital and earlier backers General […]

Attorney Paul Farrell Jr. speaks July 28 after the conclusion of the federal opioid trial. | Brittany Hively CHARLESTON – Attorneys for Cardinal Health and McKesson presented closing arguments in hope of convincing U.S. District Judge David Faber the distribution companies should not be held liable for any part in the opioid epidemic.  Faber is overseeing the bellwether federal bench trial where the City of Huntington and Cabell County filed suit against three pharmac...

Timothy Deer CHARLESTON – Tables turned as an expert witness for Cardinal Health had his professional reputation challenged during his testimony at the bellwether federal opioid trial.  Enu Mainigi, representing Cardinal Health, called local physician Timothy Deer as an expert in pain management and the standard of care for pain management.  Deer testified that he was asked to look at the standard care in West Virginia between 1994 and 2021, the change of opioid pres...

CHARLESTON – As they began arguing their case, the three drug distributor defendants in the bellwether federal trial continued to rest blame on others for fueling the opioid epidemic. After more than six weeks of testimony, the City of Huntington and Cabell County rested their case July 1. That meant defendants AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson started arguing the companies’ side July 2.  Huntington and Cabell County sued the distribution companies in 2017, seeking the partie...

Close The trial of the “Big Three” drug companies accused of fueling an opioid drug epidemic in Cabell County and the city of Huntington is taking place at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston. Courtesy of the West Virginia Humanities Council