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Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2023-January-2

Categories: General

Local governments in Northwest Florida and Miami-Dade County have filed lawsuits against the multinational consulting company McKinsey & Company for prior work in assisting with the marketing of opioids.

Cities & Counties In FL Sues McKinsey Over Opioid Crisis

Categories: Settlements

Local governments in Northwest Florida and Miami-Dade County have filed lawsuits against the multinational consulting company McKinsey & Company for prior work in assisting with the marketing of…

California To Get $470M From CVS In Opioid Settlement

Categories: Settlements

A multistate settlement with CVS over charges that the drugstore corporation contributed to the country's opioid problem is likely to pay California around $470 million.

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$6M For UMSL Addiction Science Team To Fight Mo. Opioid Crisis

Categories: Settlements

The Addiction Science Team at the University of Missouri-St. Louis will receive around $6 million to enhance its statewide training and delivery of opioid overdose reversal medicine…

Family Of A Mistakenly Shot Teen By NYPD Officers Gets $3M

Categories: Settlements

The city of New York will pay $3 million to the mother of a mentally ill kid who was slain in a hail of police bullets after cops mistook a hairbrush for a rifle.

Five officers fired 20 rounds at the 18-year-old kid outside his house in…

Physician Penalized With $4.2M In Claims Fraud Settlement

Categories: Settlements

A Connecticut-based physician and several of his companies have been forced to pay $4.2 million in damages for filing fraudulent claims for payment to Medicare and the state Medicaid programme for inappropriate billing and needless services.

FedEx Driver Sued For Killing A 7-Year-Old Girl

Categories: General

The father of a 7-year-old girl has accused a FedEx delivery man in Texas of murdering his daughter.

He filed the claim in Wise County court several weeks after his daughter was discovered dead in a body of water in Boyd, roughly 10 miles…

Prison Officer At JCCC Granted $2M In Assault Settlement

Categories: Settlements

A financial payout was given to a prison officer at the Jefferson City Correctional Center after an inmate assault left him with serious and lasting disabilities.

Following an incident at JCCC on July 19, the officer and his wife filed a…

Full Review Of 11th Cir. Ruling Sought By Monsanto

Categories: General

An Eleventh Circuit panel revised but did not overturn a previous ruling that federal law does not preempt a Georgia doctor's claim that Monsanto failed to warn people about the alleged cancer risks of its…

Alabama Cities To Get $44M From Walmart Over Opioid Crisis

Categories: Settlements

Alabama Attorney General informed that Walmart has agreed to a $44.2 million settlement with 270 Alabama town, city, and county governments regarding the effects of opioid addiction…