Amerisource Opioid Deal Holdout Grilled by Georgia Justices

Georgia Supreme Court justices openly disagreed with the legal challenge of a single county health agency that is holding up the state’s portion of a $26 billion settlement with AmerisourceBergen Corp. and other opioid distributors.

The high court’s panel on Tuesday pressed an attorney for the Hospital Authority of Wayne County on why a state subdivision should be able to pursue its own case against AmerisourceBergen when a 2022 state statute prohibits local governments from bringing their own claims on these opioid suits.

“If the General Assembly gave them powers, doesn’t it make sense that they can take some ...