Teva, J&J make multibillion-dollar settlement offers as opioid trial gets going

Teva, J&J make multibillion-dollar settlement offers as opioid trial gets going

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Fierce Pharma
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After months of waiting, one drugmaker and five distributors accused of fueling the nation’s addiction epidemic may finally face a courtroom this week. But with multibillion-dollar settlement talks are swirling, will a bellwether trial for thousands of those lawsuits end before it begins?