Monday, October 21, 2019

Drug firms settle to avoid trial

Four drug companies have reached a last-minute settlement over their role in the opioid epidemic hours before opening arguments were meant to start  in the American state of Ohio.  The $260 million deal freezes what would have been the first federal trail over the crisis, but does not resolve the more than 2,600 other lawsuits filed across the United States. Toni Waterman has more from Washington.

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