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Opioids Stock photos by Vecteezy Earlier this year, Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $350 million settlement with a multinational marketing firm, Publicis, for its role in the perpetuation of the opioid crisis. In addition to a $220 million settlement with distributors Cardinal Health and Cencora, who failed to uphold their duty to report overprescribing to […]
The City of Gadsden and the Etowah County Commission on Tuesday approved accepting their respective shares of an opioid lawsuit settlement involving one of a number of drug manufacturers or distributors. The city will receive $110,953 — minus a 25% fee that goes to attorneys — from Endo Pharmaceuticals’ settlement with the State of Alabama. Attorney Emily Hawk Mills told the City Council that according to the settlement’s
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August 27, 2015 Does the fallout from the Ashley Madison hacking and public disclosures include civil liability implications? Most states recognize the tort of invasion of privacy. This law had its origin in an 1890 Harvard Law Review article that advocated a judicial recognition of the “right to be left alone” with respect to potential
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A 2009 Alabama safety measure enacted by the Legislature, after a series of accidents involving huge metal coils coming off tractor-trailer loads onto highways and streets, is under attack by the Alabama Trucking Association, which appears to have won the first round. The ATA filed a Petition for Determination of Pre-Emption before the Federal Motor
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BP “Swiss Cheese” analogy for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was presented before a New Orleans court this past Monday. This model, referenced in a BP report, suggests a comparison to the dairy product, stating that disaster strikes only when “all of the holes are lined up”, that is, where hazardous activities and failures are
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