Parents of Opioid Victims Have Claims Trimmed in McKinsey Case

Children of opioid users who suffered Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome had some of their claims tossed in the sprawling litigation against McKinsey & Co. alleging liability for its role facilitating opioid sales.

Judge Charles R. Breyer , of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, dismissed five of the NAS victims’ various claims alleging a conspiracy to push opioid sales on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. The NAS plaintiffs, who are 11 victims across eight states, allege that McKinsey is liable under negligence per se, public nuisance, and fraud theories.

The plaintiffs’ public nuisance theory falls short because they ...