(April 19, 2022, 2:12 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — Concerned about the risk of continuing to coordinate all of New York state’s opioid litigation before a single judge, the state’s Litigation Coordinating Panel on April 18 designated a second court to help handle other cases, including those involving “small, independent pharmacies” in upstate counties, and allowed coordinating judges to assign other judges to help with the caseload....