Kentucky AG: Kroger 'allowed the fire of addiction to spread,' announces $110M settlement
Coleman's office said the event at the Life Learning Center will reveal one of the largest opioid settlements in recent Kentucky history.
Attorney General Coleman announces opioid settlement with Kroger
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced a settlement with Kroger that will bring $110 million to Kentucky in support of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. “For over a decade, Kroger tragically fed the flames of the drug addiction fire that rages across every county of our Commonwealth.
Kentucky reaches $110 million deal with Kroger to settle its opioid lawsuit
Kentucky's attorney general says the state will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic.
How Kentucky will disperse $110 million from opioid settlement with Kroger
The lawsuit, filed last year, accused Kroger pharmacies of dispensing 11 percent of all opioid pills statewide over 13 years, totaling 444 million doses.
Kroger agrees to pay $110M to Kentucky in opioid settlement
The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay Kentucky $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging it pumped millions of doses of opioids into the state over the course of more than a decade. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) announced the settlement Thursday,
KY reaches settlement with Kroger for pumping 440 million doses of opioids into the state
Kentucky has reached a settlement with Kroger that will bring over $100 million to the commonwealth in support of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. Attorney General Russell Coleman announced the $1
Kroger to pay $110 million to resolve Kentucky lawsuit over opioid epidemic
Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities with hundreds of millions of doses of addictive painkillers.
Kroger settles opioid lawsuit, will pay Kentucky $110 million
Kentucky is set to receive $110 million from a settlement with Kroger that will go to addressing the opioid crisis, Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Thursday. This comes nearly a year after Coleman sued Kroger,
Kentucky to receive over $100M from Kroger settlement
Kroger and its pharmacies in the state were responsible for over 11% of all opioid pills dispensed in Kentucky.
'This is blood money' | Kroger reaches $110 million opioid settlement with the Kentucky
The suit alleged Kroger bought more than four billion morphine milligram equivalents of opioids for Kentucky between 2006 and 2019, roughly equivalent to 444 million opioid doses. The company distributed almost 194 million hydrocodone pills to its Kentucky pharmacies between 2006 and 2019,
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