Drugmaker Endo signs $65 million opioid settlement with Florida

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Drugmaker Endo signs $65 mln opioid settlement with Florida

(Reuters) – Drugmaker Endo International plc (ENDP.O) said on Tuesday it had agreed to pay up to $65 million to resolve claims by the state of Florida and local governments that the drugmaker helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.

The deal is the latest in a string of settlements that Endo has struck in recent months to resolve similar cases, including a $63 million settlement with Texas in December. read more

The Florida settlement included no admission of wrongdoing, Endo said, while reiterating that its goal was to achieve a global opioid settlement.

Tablets of the opioid-based Hydrocodone at a pharmacy in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston

Thousands of lawsuits have been filed seeking to hold drugmakers, drug distributors and pharmacy chains responsible for a drug abuse crisis, which the U.S. government says has led to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths over two decades.

Endo shares rose nearly 4% to $3.40 in premarket trading.

Reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva

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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmaker-endo-signs-65-mln-opioid-settlement-with-florida-2022-01-18