Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 2, 2020
The long, winding road to settling the opioid litigation
2020 is likely to be a decisive year for opioid litigation settlements.
Harry J. Nelson
Partner
Nelson Hardiman, LLP
Email: hnelson@nelsonhardiman.com
Harry is the founder of Nelson Hardiman, a Los Angeles-based health care and life sciences specialty law firm. His most recent book, "The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain" (ForbesBooks 2019) explores the points of system failure and solutions to America's substance use disorder crisis.
As I wrote "The United States of Opioids" in 2018, I faced a challenge in what to say about the opioid litigation. The explosion of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors (as well as other parties, such as national pharmacies) had been well underway since 2017, when the National Prescription Opiate Litigation multi-district litigation began in Cleveland, Ohio before U.S. District Judge Dan Polster. With hundreds of thousands...
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