Neil Averitt commentary: Opioid cases will help broaden deception law

Washington, D.C. (February 19, 2019) -- State and local governments are lining up to sue the makers of Oxycontin and other addictive drugs.  And there’s a side benefit to this. These cases not only address the opioid crisis, but they also advance an important point in deception law. They make it clear that large institutions — such as hospitals — as well as individual consumers should be protected against misleading marketing efforts....

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