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Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Class Action Decisions Published April 2025

Highlights from this issue include Rule 23(b)(3) Damages....more

ArentFox Schiff

Investigation Newsletter: Florida Doctor Receives 20-Year Prison Sentence for Substance Abuse Treatment Fraud

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Florida Doctor Receives 20-Year Prison Sentence for Substance Abuse Treatment Fraud - Following a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, a Florida doctor was sentenced to 20 years in prison for...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Civil justice system works, as tribes show in major opioid settlements

No matter how wrong-headed critics may assail the civil justice system, Native Americans have clear evidence that liability lawsuits really do work. For hundreds of tribes and their members, the pursuit of  justice in the...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

As opioid drug-case settlement advances, fentanyl deaths spike in D.C. area

Just as attorneys generals for more than a dozen states inch toward a multibillion-dollar settlement with a drug maker faulted for its big role in the start of the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis, that health menace is...more

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Investigations Newsletter: DOJ Announces Charges Against 345 Defendants in Historic Nationwide Health Care Fraud and Opioid...

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DOJ Announces Charges Against 345 Defendants in Historic Nationwide Health Care Fraud and Opioid Takedown - The DOJ announced a nationwide enforcement action charging 345 defendants across 51 federal districts with...more

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Sixth Circuit Allows Appeal Of Novel Class Action Ordered In Nationwide Opiate Litigation

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In the latest development in the ultra-high stakes nationwide Prescription Opiate Litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently granted the petition of six Ohio cities to appeal the ...more

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Settlement Reached in the First Federal Opioids Trial

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This post is an update from our earlier blog post, available here, on the bellwether federal opioids trial in the Northern District of Ohio.  Just hours prior to the start of the trial in a consolidated case involving two...more

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