Johnson County Board of Commissioners agreed to a settlement to receive financial compensation from files claimed against pharmaceutical companies in 2019 for malpractice in the national opioid crisis. Fourteen counties and six other cities in the State of Kansas are also part of the settlement, Peg Trent, chief legal counsel, said at the Thursday December 16 meeting. Purdue, Johnson and Johnson, Cardinal, McKesson and Amerisource are the five pharmaceutical companies part of the settlement. Resolution 109-21 approves joining the Kansas Opioids Memorandum of Understanding between the Kansas Attorney General, the League of Kansas Municipalities and the Kansas Association of Counties. It also approves an agreement releasing Johnson County’s claims to the Kansas Attorney General. The Opioid Crisis Accountability Act of 2019 was passed by the U.S. Congress to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for dubious marketing and distribution of opioid products and for their role in creating and exacerbating the opioid epidemic in the United States.
Source: Gardner News
