North Carolina Judge Dismisses Set Of Insureds’ Claims In Opioid Coverage Dispute

(October 13, 2023, 2:00 PM EDT) -- WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina judge found that one set of insureds in a coverage dispute arising from the opioid epidemic filed their declaratory relief lawsuit in an attempt to avoid their home state of Ohio and the Ohio Supreme Court’s holding in Acuity v. Masters Pharm., Inc., partly granting insurers’ motion to dismiss....