Your Rights & Options

File a claim. Claim Deadline: December 17, 2026

  • You can get a payment from the Settlement Fund if you submit a valid claim by doing the following: 

    • You can fill out and submit a Claim Form with the required supporting documents, information, and claims data. The amount of your total payment will depend on the number of claimants, the amount, types of costs, and what you were paid to treat patients with opioid use disorder; the amount of charges that were not reimbursed; the years you practiced as an independent emergency room physician, and other factors the Claims Administrator may consider as set forth in the Plan of Allocation or through the Emergency Room Physician Model developed by the Claim Administrator. 

  • Payments will be made based on a Plan of Allocation approved by the Court.

  • To make a claim for a payment from the Settlement Fund, you must fill out a Claim Form HERE OR DOWNLOAD, complete and submit it via email to info@ierpsettlement.com no later than December 17, 2026. 

  • The Claims Administrator will send you a link to a secure file transfer protocol (“SFTP”) where you must submit any applicable supporting documents, information, and claims data no later than December 17, 2026. 

  • The Claim Forms include more detailed instructions. 

  • If you do not submit a timely claim with the required information and documents, you will not receive a payment from the Settlement Fund. Unless you timely excluded yourself from the Settlement, you will still be bound by the Settlement, the Judgment, and the release contained in therein.

Opt out / exclude yourself (Deadline May 17, 2026)

  • If you do not want the benefits (or a payment) offered by the Settlement, do not want to be legally bound by the terms of the Settlement Agreement, and you want to keep your right to sue all or some of the settling Defendants about the claims in this case, you must exclude yourself. This is also called “opting out.” To the extent you opt out, any amounts you would have received from the settlement is required to be used, in the first instance, by the Defendants to the extent you bring litigation against them. The opt out deadline is May 17, 2026.

  • You must follow the instructions to opt out provided in the Long Form Notice, available on the Court Documents Tab.

Object to the settlement (Deadline May 17, 2026)

  • You may write to the Court about why you do not like the Settlement. The objection deadline is May 17, 2026. Additionally, you may ask to go to the Fairness Hearing and speak in Court about the fairness of the Settlement. If you object to the Settlement, you are still a Class Member and you must file a claim to receive a payment which can only be used for abatement in an approved abatement plan.

  • You must follow the instructions to object provided in the Long Form Notice, available on the Court Documents Tab.

Do nothing

  • If you do nothing, you will not receive any payment. You will be bound by the release in the Settlement and will not be able to sue the settling Defendants about the claims in this lawsuit.

Effect of release on your claims

  • Unless you timely exclude yourself from the Settlement, you can’t sue or be part of any other lawsuit against the settling Defendants about the claims in this case. Class Members will be bound by all Court orders and decisions.

  • More information about the releases, or claims that you give up, may be found in the Settlement Agreement, available on the Court Documents Tab.

Right to hire your own attorney

  • The Court appointed the following attorneys to represent you and the other Class Members as “Class Counsel”: Paul S. Rothstein, P.A. 626 NE 1st Street Gainesville, FL 32601 

  • You will not be charged for contacting these lawyers. If you want to be represented by another lawyer, you may hire one at your own expense.