J&J set­tles Ohio opi­oid case for $20.4M, avoids loom­ing tri­al

J&J has agreed to a $20.4 mil­lion set­tle­ment with two Ohio coun­ties that at the height of the opi­oid cri­sis saw around 1,000 com­bined an­nu­al over­dose deaths, pro­vid­ing a large cash in­fu­sion for a pair of lo­cal­i­ties that have act­ed with fierce and some­times con­tro­ver­sial in­de­pen­dence to com­bat se­vere lo­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions of a na­tion­al epi­dem­ic.

The pay­out pales in com­par­i­son to the half-bil­lion dol­lar fine the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal gi­ant was or­dered to pay out in Ok­la­homa, al­though that deal cov­ered the en­tire state rather than two coun­ties.

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