Following opioid-related settlements from CVS and Walgreens with states and other national groups, Walmart is now doing the same: not admitting any guilt but agreeing to pay more than $3 billion.
Walmart announced the settlement Tuesday morning, adding that it had agreed to “financial amounts and payment terms to resolve substantially all opioids-related lawsuits filed against the Company, as well as all potential claims that could be made against the Company, by states and political subdivisions and tribes,” per an SEC filing.
Walmart is settling amid accusations of how its pharmacies handled opioids, with the New York Attorney General’s office saying in a statement Tuesday that the company contributed to the US opioid crisis by failing to regulate opioid prescriptions at its stores.
The office added that Letitia James co-led a group of attorneys general, including those from California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio and Texas, among the 15 states that…
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