Developments in LaSalle Co. opioid settlement

OTTAWA- LaSalle County State’s Attorney Karen Donnelly says the county could allocate over $300,000 per every billion made in a settlement with major opioid makers. Donnelly recently filed a comprehensive 320 page complaint against the manufacturers and distributors of opioids to seek costs for the county in addressing the crisis. According to her opioid litigation developments, the distribution of any forthcoming settlement dollars will be rooted in a formula with three quantifiable factors using federal data beginning in 2008: One, the amount of opioid drugs distributed within a county, two, the number of opioid deaths that occurred in a county and three, the number of people who suffer opioid use disorder in a county. Under this scenario, Donnelly says the county-level allocation for would be $323,683.00 per $1 billion gross.