{"id":14155,"date":"2019-10-02T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14155"},"modified":"2019-10-02T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:39:09","slug":"in-opioid-settlement-johnson-johnson-agrees-to-pay-ohio-counties-20-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14155","title":{"rendered":"In Opioid Settlement, Johnson &#038; Johnson Agrees To Pay Ohio Counties $20 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Scott Neuman for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Johnson &amp; Johnson and two Ohio counties have reached a tentative $20.4 million settlement that removes the corporation from the first federal lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, scheduled to begin later this month.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0statement\u00a0released Tuesday, the healthcare giant said the agreement with Cleveland&#8217;s Cuyahoga and Akron&#8217;s Summit counties allows it &#8220;to avoid the resource demands and uncertainty of a trial.&#8221; However, the terms stipulate that Johnson &amp; Johnson makes &#8220;no admission of liability.&#8221;\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/02\/766332253\/in-opioid-settlement-johnson-johnson-agrees-to-pay-ohio-counties-20-million\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Scott Neuman for NPR) Johnson &amp; Johnson and two Ohio counties have reached a tentative $20.4 million settlement that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14156,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions\/14156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}