Recent News About Rite Aid
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has announced a settlement that may add up to $30 million with Rite Aid to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the pharmacy chain failed to maintain effective controls against diversion and it contributed to oversupply of opioids in the state.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware judge has rejected an insurance company’s plea to appeal a ruling that requires it to cover Rite Aid’s costs in defending against more than 1,000 opioid lawsuits, saying that while the dollar amount was potentially large, the contract issues involved were relatively pedestrian.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Ohio must turn over the names of pharmacies and physicians that filled millions of opioid prescriptions in the state but haven’t been named as defendants in litigation over the narcotics, the judge overseeing federal multidistrict opioid litigation has ruled.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Pharmacies defending themselves against claims they filled excessive numbers of opioid prescriptions have asked the judge overseeing federal multidistrict litigation to again order the state of Ohio to turn over data showing the specific physicians and pharmacies that supplied narcotics into the state.
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CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - Facing a string of damaging rulings by the judge overseeing sprawling litigation against them, some of the nation’s leading retail pharmacy chains resorted to the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The Drug Enforcement Agency must turn over records of audits that Rite Aid and other pharmacies facing litigation say will show they complied with the government’s requirements to detect and intercept suspicious opioid orders.
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AKRON, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - An Ohio county that settled opioid lawsuits last year for $105 million paid more than $1 million in legal fees to two law firms that never appeared on any of the court filings, including one associated with a prominent Washington lobbyist whose firm represented multiple companies being sued by the county.
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CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) – The ACLU is telling a federal appeals court that the judge overseeing thousands of opioid cases created a serious privacy issue when he ordered pharmacies to turn over 13 years’ worth of patient records.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back 14 years - even as the American Civil Liberties Union and some states attack similar requests by the government as overbroad and an invasion of privacy.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Saying they have been unfairly targeted because of their deep pockets, pharmacies facing trial in opioid multidistrict litigation in Ohio later this year filed claims against hundreds of unnamed practitioners who may have written improper prescriptions for addictive painkillers.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Pharmacy companies facing thousands of lawsuits over allegedly improper opioid prescriptions failed to convince the federal judge to prohibit out-of-court discussions with plaintiff lawyers that some defendants believe have affected them unfairly.
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CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) – Large pharmacy chains are asking why they are being sued by hundreds of cities and counties over the opioid crisis instead of the criminals who pushed drugs to addicts.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (Legal Newsline) – An Oregon resident alleges Rite Aid brand nutritional supplements have inaccurate labels.
