Lead lawyer for Cuyahoga County Hunter J. Shkolnik, partner at Napoli Shkolnik of New York City, said the funds from the case will be used entirely for treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s significant is we have brought to Cuyahoga County and my co-counsel with respect to Summit County money now, significant money now, and also it set a benchmark for what counties should be receiving across the country,\u201d he told the Cleveland Jewish News on Oct. 22 from his office.<\/p>\n
The only defendant left in the trial that had been scheduled for Oct. 21 is the drugstore chain Walgreens. The new plan is for Walgreens and other pharmacies to go to trial within six months.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should have settled,\u201d Shkolnik said of Walgreens. \u201cThey\u2019re going to find out that was a very bad mistake and I\u2019m sure their fellow pharmacy chains, like CVS and Rite Aid, are very unhappy because they\u2019re back in the courtroom here in Cuyahoga County with the bullseye on their backs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shkolnik said he is paid on contingency in this case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a contingency fee case, so we do get percentages,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the way it works. They don\u2019t have the resources generally speaking, I don\u2019t mean just Cuyahoga County, cities and counties don\u2019t have the resources to bring this type of litigation. It\u2019s not in their usual space of litigation. They have to go outside. The risk to the county to hire outside by hour and pay the costs is too much for any individual county, so firms and the other ones in leadership roles here, we together have put in about 900,000 hours of work \u2013 we keep our time so we know. That\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing these billion dollar settlements. It takes an army to take on the pharmaceutical industry the same way it did for lawyers who successfully took on tobacco.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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