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Move against [four firms] makes Michigan the 49th state to have filed some kind of legal action against the opioid industry
by applewood

    Nessel said Michigan’s suit is different because it targets distributors under a 1994 state law that was enacted to combat illegal drug trafficking. The law lets people and governmental entities sue drug dealers for damages, even if the dealer did not make a sale specifically causing an injury.

    The companies “all used their licenses to distribute controlled substances in Michigan as a cover for what is essentially a criminal enterprise,“ Nessel said during a news conference attended by governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state’s chief medical executive. “They knowingly and deliberately distributed drugs in our state without controls. This was not only negligent. It was unlawful, a public nuisance.”