Terms of mega opi­oid set­tle­ment set to be dis­closed this week — re­port

Years af­ter talks be­tween drug­mak­ers, dis­trib­u­tors and five US states be­gan sur­round­ing the opi­oid cri­sis, the fi­nal terms of a $26 bil­lion set­tle­ment hold­ing the com­pa­nies re­spon­si­ble for fu­el­ing the epi­dem­ic is ex­pect­ed to be an­nounced this week, Bloomberg re­ports.

J&J, McKesson Corp., Car­di­nal Health and Amerisource­Ber­gen are ex­pect­ed to dis­close the fi­nal terms of a multi­bil­lion dol­lar set­tle­ment for thou­sands of law­suits sur­round­ing the com­pa­nies’ role in the opi­oid cri­sis.  Each state has the op­tion to ac­cept just J&J’s of­fer, or the com­bined dis­trib­u­tors’ pro­pos­al, and the com­pa­nies will pay bonus­es for each lo­cal gov­ern­ment that signs up, ac­cord­ing to Bloomberg.

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