Independent ER Physician Opioid Settlement Claim Portal

Settlement Summary

• A proposed settlement (“Settlement”), totaling up to $3,842,182 with settling Defendants has been reached in a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that to sell as many prescription opioids as possible, manufacturers misrepresented the risks and safety of prescription opioid use, distributors did not properly monitor, stop, or report suspicious orders, and pharmacies filled opioid prescriptions that were not written for legitimate medical purposes. It further alleges that as a result, emergency room physicians, who were independent and not employed by hospitals must now spend additional money and resources to treat opioid-dependent patients and patients with opioid-related conditions that they would not have had to treat otherwise. Defendants deny that they did anything wrong. The Court has not decided who is right.

• Generally, you are included if you practiced as an independent emergency room physician (“IERP”) in the United States for any five years between January 1, 1996, through Final Judgment and during that time and in that capacity, you (a) treated patients diagnosed with a opioid use disorder, and/or other opioid-related conditions, and (b) have been damaged in the past and/or reasonably anticipate incurring additional treatment, educational and abatement expenses in the future arising from patients suffering from OUD and opioid misuse. The Settlement seeks to provide an Allocated Amount to IERPs who qualify as Class Members, to use their Allocated Amount towards OUD Abatement Purposes. Unclaimed Settlement Funds will be used for OUD Abatement Purposes.

• "Independent Emergency Room Physician" is defined as an Emergency Room Physician that was a non-hospital employee that worked in an Emergency Room Physicians whose billing and revenue collection were entirely separate from the billing and revenue collection practices of the medical facility at which such ER Physician practiced, and such ER Physician was not employed by such medical facility; who treated patients with opioid use disorder (who were either uninsured or underinsured), at any time, since 1996 through the present.