Drugmakers in N.H. Opioid Probe Lose Bid to Oust Cohen Milstein

A New Hampshire assistant attorney general expressed relief about a recent court ruling that will allow his office to retain a prominent plaintiffs’ law firm to investigate whether five U.S. pharmaceutical giants fueled opioid addiction through deceptive marketing practices.

The drugmakers have “an army of lawyers” defending them, and the small staff of lawyers in the N.H. Office of Attorney General would face a “David and Goliath” situation if they couldn’t rely on outside counsel, assistant attorney general James Boffetti told Bloomberg BNA.

The state retained on a contingent fee basis the class action firm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll ...