{"id":25949,"date":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/johnson-johnson-settles-opioid-suit-with-two-ohio-counties\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:10:06","slug":"johnson-johnson-settles-opioid-suit-with-two-ohio-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/johnson-johnson-settles-opioid-suit-with-two-ohio-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &amp; Johnson Settles Opioid Suit With Two Ohio Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Drug maker agrees to pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties &#36;10 million without admitting liability<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; With a federal trial pending, the pharmaceutical giant Johnson &#038; Johnson agreed Wednesday to pay two Ohio counties more than $20 million for its role in the ongoing opioid crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement comes on the heels of a $572 million settlement the company was ordered to pay New Brunswick, New Jersey, for marketing opioids in the state, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ohio settlement, Johnson &#038; Johnson&#8217;s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical agrees to pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties $10 million without admitting liability. The settlement also calls for the company to pay $5 million in legal expenses and give $5.4 million to nonprofits that fight the epidemic in northeastern Ohio, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Drug makers Endo, Allergan, and Mallinckrodt have also settled with these Ohio counties. Purdue Pharma has made a preliminary settlement to cover all its lawsuits, but half the states involved say they will oppose the settlement in bankruptcy court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/1f3c78da51664bc493d127289144cf5a\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug maker agrees to pay Cuyahoga and Summit counties &#36;10 million without admitting liability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}