{"id":47424,"date":"2022-04-18T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47424"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:44:27","slug":"west-virginia-reaches-99m-opioid-settlement-with-janssen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47424","title":{"rendered":"WEST VIRGINIA REACHES $99M OPIOID SETTLEMENT WITH JANSSEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<table role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) has announced a $99 million settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals in the ongoing opioid epidemic lawsuit his state is engaged in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased with the settlement because we think it represents a major step forward to start to get money in the door to help West Virginians who have been devastated by the opioid epidemic,\u201d Morrisey said during a press briefing Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started this process back in 2013, and then through subsequent litigation, we\u2019re going to make sure that we have accountability within the pharmaceutical supply channel against any individual or entity that had some role in the creation or the maintenance of this epidemic. I think today\u2019s settlement accomplishes a lot of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will have to be approved by all political subdivisions in West Virginia within the next 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia\u2019s share of the settlement would have amounted to roughly $48 million, which Morrisey said was \u201cinadequate.\u201d The state had earlier opted out of being included in the $26 billion national settlement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47425,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424\/revisions\/47425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}