A Florida insurance company's federal lawsuit alleged that several businesses are scheming to illegally sell health plans associated with Native American tribes, though the businesses being sued said the claims are just the latest salvo in a years-long legal battle that stems from a deal gone bad.
Two Northeast Ohio counties on Tuesday deployed a lawyer known for his folksy trial persona to cross-examine two expert witnesses for three major pharmacy chains that are trying to minimize how much they will have to pay after a jury found them liable for their role in the opioid epidemic.
A Stanford University professor told a judge Monday that three pharmacy chains should pay a small fraction of the roughly $875 million that two Northeast Ohio counties seek for the role a jury found the pharmacies played in the opioid crisis, arguing that the plaintiffs' experts botched some calculations.