Te­va, Al­ler­gan reach yet an­oth­er opi­oid set­tle­ment — ef­fec­tive­ly end­ing WV tri­al

Te­va and Al­ler­gan have reached set­tle­ments with mul­ti­ple states over their in­volve­ment in the opi­oid cri­sis. Their lat­est is worth 9 fig­ures.

West Vir­ginia at­tor­ney gen­er­al Patrick Mor­risey an­nounced the newest set­tle­ment, worth $161.5 mil­lion, at a press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day. The deal would re­solve claims that the com­pa­nies helped fu­el the state’s opi­oid epi­dem­ic. If it goes through, it could be­come the largest state-ne­go­ti­at­ed set­tle­ment in West Vir­ginia’s his­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to Reuters.

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