HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A court hearing in two West Virginia lawsuits that accuse several drug firms of fueling the opioid epidemic has been set in Charleston.
The hearing set for Jan. 27 involves suits filed by Huntington and Cabell County and will be the first Charleston-based court proceeding in the cases in nearly three years, the Herald-Dispatch reported.
The order was issued last week after a U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation signed off on sending the cases back to West Virginia.
The last time attorneys met in a Charleston courtroom was in May 2017, before the multi-district litigation group was created as dozens of other entities filed similar lawsuits.
West Virginia suffered 1,017 drug overdose deaths in 2017, and Cabell County led the state, with 157.
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