Four major pharmaceutical companies have at the last minute averted a landmark painkiller process in the US by comparison.
The drug dealers McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health pay together according to a plaintiff lawyer 215 million dollars. Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva is expected to pay an additional $ 20 million and provide $ 25 million worth of pain reliever medication.
Actually, this Monday in Cleveland, Ohio, a mammoth lawsuit should begin against the companies. They are accused of having launched an aggressive and truth-busting marketing of their painkillers, the opioid crisis in the US, which counts to date about 400,000 deaths.
States, cities, and counties are demanding billions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry for the fight against opiate dependency and overdoses. The comparison that has now been made initially concerned only complaints from two districts in the US state of Ohio. The corporations are confronted with numerous other lawsuits.
