{"id":2659,"date":"2019-11-25T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/hunter-shkolnik-discusses-opioid-global-settlement-potential\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:34:52","slug":"hunter-shkolnik-discusses-opioid-global-settlement-potential","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/hunter-shkolnik-discusses-opioid-global-settlement-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Shkolnik Discusses Opioid Global Settlement Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017 Ohio was ranked second in the nation for overdose deaths involving opioids. More than 4,000 people died that year from overdoses. It&#8217;s why hundreds of Ohio cities and counties are now part of lawsuits against the largest drug manufacturers and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacy chains will likely face an October 2020 trial for their alleged role in the opioid crisis. \u201cI suspect you\u2019re going to see a lot happening in 2020 in terms of global settlements,&#8221; said Hunter Shkolnik, leading litigator of the Ohio MDL trial team. They\u2019re bringing forward a class action negotiation that involves hundreds of Northeast Ohio cities and counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis preserves Cuyahoga and Summit Counties settlements with certain defendants, but allows them to participate as to any other defendant that engages in settlement negotiations going forward,&#8221; Shkolnik said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017 Ohio was ranked second in the nation for overdose deaths involving opioids. More than 4,000 people died that year from overdoses. It&#8217;s why hundreds of Ohio cities and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":225,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75,98,253,254,57],"whitepaper-source":[336],"class_list":["post-2659","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-ohio-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper_category-opioid-crisis","whitepaper_category-opioid-epidemic","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper-source-cleveland19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2659","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\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}