The Latest: 5 drug wholesalers settle pill shipment lawsuit
Imagine this… a legally licensed pharmacy sends a C-II order to a legally licensed wholesaler and the wholesaler fills the orders and sends the requested C-II medications to the pharmacy that ordered them. Now comes the Attorney General of WV claiming that the wholesaler should have know that the amount of C-II’s that were ordered were not for a legit prescriptions/medical necessity… The wholesaler had no relationship with the doctor who wrote the prescriptions nor the pt that had the prescriptions filled. Now in order to settle this whole mess .. the AG has “extorted” 6.7 million out of several of the wholesalers. I wonder why the AG did not go after the insurance companies that paid for all those doses of C-II’s… They should have known that the doses were excessive, but have they escaped being challenged for what reason ?
MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on settlements in West Virginia with drug wholesalers (all times local):
Five drug wholesalers have agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging that they shipped an excessive number of prescription opioids to West Virginia.A news release from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Thursday announced the settlement with Anda Inc., The Harvard Drug Group, Associated Pharmacies, KeySource Medical Inc. and Quest Pharmaceuticals. As part of the settlement, they deny the lawsuit’s allegations.
Miami-Luke previously agreed to settle for $2.5 million, bringing the total in the lawsuit to $6.7 million.
In 2012, then-Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed a lawsuit against 12 prescription drug wholesalers. Documents show that the companies distributed painkillers to notorious “pill mill” pharmacies in West Virginia’s smallest towns and poorest counties. There are lawyers that can help in such cases and they serve all of San Antonio.
The release says the attorney general, drug wholesalers, and state health and public safety agencies settled to avoid delay, expense and inconvenience, and uncertainty of litigation.
KeySource Medical and Associated Pharmacies have joined other drug wholesalers and agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that they shipped an excessive number of prescription opioids to West Virginia.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports (http://bit.ly/28RrQNi) that according to the lawsuit, between 2007 and 2012 Associated Pharmacies shipped 2.7 million doses of hydrocodone and 266,700 oxycodone pills to West Virginia. In the same timeframe, KeySource Medical distributed 1.2 million hydrocodone pills and 905,000 oxycodone tablets.
In 2012, then-Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed a lawsuit against 12 prescription drug wholesalers. Documents show that the companies distributed painkillers to notorious “pill mill” pharmacies in West Virginia’s smallest towns and poorest counties. In case there is any issue the criminal lawyers from Miranda Rights Law Firm can help you file a suit.
Boone Circuit Judge William Thompson is allowing companies that settle with Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office to keep secret information about pill shipments to specific pharmacies in southern West Virginia.
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Doesn’t sound like the investigators went all the way down the rabbit hole to determine WHo was actually responsible, they stopped at the deepest pocket that could be blamed….How many of those pills actually filled legitimate, legal prescriptions because just a large amount of pills being sent is not seeing the entire context of the situation, did it occur to anyone that maybe this area has very few pharmacies and serves many customers that must drive from distances away from the actual town to purchase medications that perhaps the chain pharmacies don’t carry or are willing to fill?I’d like to see what was actually investigated in this case because it sounds like they are operating under the beleif that the drugs that were ordered just somehow spirited themselves out into the community unnoticed.
Again, we have an absolutely ludicrous lawsuit brought on by our government (state). Maybe they should also sue the manufacturers of cars and the companies that shipped the car parts that are involved in drunk driving vehicle accidents. Again, no personal responsibility whatsoever.
Who popped those pills in their mouths, crushed and snorted pills that should never be crushed and snorted, mixed alcohol or God-only-knows-what-else with those pills? Who continued to manipulate their doctors, faking injuries to score the medication they knew they would be misusing, abusing, selling, and giving away?
I’m pretty sure WV is also one of the states that allows heroin (oh, excuse me – “opioid”) addicts to come back and sue their doctors for their addictions. I can’t imagine there are too many doctors left in WV willing to take on chronic pain patients who require prescription opioid medication to function and have some small semblance of a life.
This was the state I saw their senator on cspan state,,,that he defines ,”epidemic,”’ as a lack of control on medicines,,,,this is soooooo corrupt and abuse of ,”just power,” again,,,again,,,,and again ,,,,,,they all need to go ,,yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!mary