Written by: Nolan Hendricks
On September 7, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that an insurance company, Acuity, owed no duty to defend its insured, Masters Pharmaceutical, in a series of lawsuits brought by cities and counties in West Virginia, Michigan, and Nevada.
The general thread of claims in these suits is that Masters' conduct contributed to the opioid epidemic that continues to plague communities, resulting in the governments’ suffering