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West Virginia plan: Companies pay $1.25B to end opioid suits

by Associated Press
| March 2, 2020 4:05 PM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Communities in West Virginia say they would get $1.25 billion from the drug industry in a proposed settlement that would end most of the litigation stemming from the opioid crisis in the state.

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