{"id":2639,"date":"2019-10-23T15:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/abc5-cleveland-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-landmark-260m-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:34:11","slug":"abc5-cleveland-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-landmark-260m-deal","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/abc5-cleveland-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-landmark-260m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC5 Cleveland Quotes Hunter Shkolnik on Landmark $260M Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four drug companies have reached a settlement with two northeast Ohio counties to avoid a trial claiming their responsibility for the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The settlement does not include the fifth defendant, Walgreens, the drugstore chain who was sued over its own distribution operation. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said Walgreens would be included in the next phase of the trial, set to take place in early 2020, which also includes other retail pharmacies and drug manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose cases include a component of dispensing as well as distribution,\u201d Shkolnik said. \u201cThey\u2019re distributors and they\u2019re dispensers. They have information that even these big three [McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen] didn\u2019t have and they knew who were the addicts filling prescriptions. And they didn\u2019t do the right thing and we\u2019re going to show that in the second phase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four drug companies have reached a settlement with two northeast Ohio counties to avoid a trial claiming their responsibility for the opioid epidemic. What\u2019s next The settlement does not include&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":244,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[98,253,254,57,75],"whitepaper-source":[323],"class_list":["post-2639","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-ohio-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper-source-abc5-cleveland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}