W.Va. High Court Reverses Injunction Order In Opioid Epidemic Coverage Suit

(November 16, 2021, 12:15 PM EST) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Finding a lower court’s anti-suit injunction order in an opioid epidemic coverage dispute to be “overbroad” and an abuse of discretion, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Nov. 15 reversed the lower court’s grant of a pharmaceutical distributor’s motion to enjoin insurers sued in West Virginia from pursuing parallel litigation against it in California and remanded for the lower court to consider the breadth of its order....