A judge dealt Baltimore City a huge blow in its attempt to hold opioid companies responsible for their role in the overdose crisis that hit the area harder than any other American city in recent years.
Baltimore City Circuit Judge Lawerence Fletcher-Hill ruled Thursday that a jury awarded too much liability and money to the city for the role two companies, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, played in the opioid crisis.
“The city and its taxpayers bear many costs of responding to these intractable problems,” Fletcher-Hill wrote. “The difficult question in this action is the extent to which two distributors of prescription opioid medications can be held liable for this complex problem.”
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