Walmart, CVS, Walgreens Must Disclose 14 Years of Opioid Data

Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and other pharmacies must cough up 14 years of national opioid-dispensing data and hand it to plaintiffs seeking billions of dollars from the companies for their alleged role in the opioid abuse crisis.

A federal judge in Cleveland overseeing the opioid multidistrict litigation involving more than 2,000 lawsuits issued a ruling that disregards most of the pharmacy industry defendants’ arguments for why their data should be kept private.

The order mandating unprecedented levels of pharmacy data disclosure sets the stage for massive production both in a 2020 bellwether lawsuit in Cleveland involving these chains and ...