The state of Kentucky has filed a lawsuit against the pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, accusing it of worsening the deadly opioid crisis in the state.
Kentucky’s Attorney General, Russell Coleman, filed the 83-page lawsuit in Jessamine County Circuit Court on Sept. 25 against the St. Louis-based firm and its affiliated organizations.
The lawsuit seeks to “abate the public nuisance caused in substantial part” by Express Scripts and its “unreasonable acts and omissions fueling the opioid epidemic,” the lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, the opioid crisis was “fueled and sustained by those involved in the supply chain of opioids, with manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), including Express Scripts, each playing a role.”…