Civil Litigation
May 6, 2021
State expert’s data questioned by defense in Orange County opioid trial
In cross-examination of the state’s analytical expert, the defense brought out her admission that her calculations of billions of dosages were not limited to the drug company defendants and the opioid products at issue in the case.
Despite drugmakers casting doubts on whether an opioid epidemic exists in California, an analytical expert testifying in a $50 billion trial in Orange County Wednesday said almost 300 billion morphine milligram equivalents, a measurement of dose potency in opioids, were prescribed in the state from 1997 to 2017.
Representing opioid producer Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., which among other drug companies is accused by the state of fu...
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