Opioid Distributors <br />May HaveProposed a <br />$10 Billion Settlement.<br />The three drug distributors <br />that reportedly made the <br />proposal are McKesson, <br />AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health.<br />It was reportedly made <br />during talks with several <br />state attorneys general.<br />The National Association <br />of Attorneys General <br />made a counter demand <br />of $45 billion.<br />Reports of the <br />offer caused drug <br />distributor stocks <br />to tumble.<br />Thousands of cases <br />against makers and <br />distributors of opioids <br />are now being consolidated.<br />Opioid litigation <br />is being compared to <br />the master settlement tobacco <br />companies made in the mid-1990s.<br />130 Americans die <br />from opioid abuse daily.
