{"id":126334,"date":"2025-07-11T01:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/11\/an-opioid-defendant-sought-records-from-1000-cities-and-counties-so-far-its-sued-five-of-them-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T01:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:59:59","slug":"an-opioid-defendant-sought-records-from-1000-cities-and-counties-so-far-its-sued-five-of-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/11\/an-opioid-defendant-sought-records-from-1000-cities-and-counties-so-far-its-sued-five-of-them-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opioid Defendant Sought Records From 1,000+ Cities and Counties. So Far, It&#8217;s Sued Five of Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OptumRx, a pharmacy benefit manager accused in hundreds of lawsuits of contributing to the opioid crisis, sued five Kentucky counties for adding it as a defendant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/921502574\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/921502574\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/921502574\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/921502574\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>OptumRx, a pharmacy benefit manager accused in hundreds of lawsuits of contributing to the opioid crisis, sued five Kentucky counties for adding it as a defendant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/921502574\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/921502574\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" 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