Tort reform: Amid opioid crisis, drug firm cites WV infant rehab clinic for possible fault

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3. The story gets worse.

The republican Attorney General of the state, Patrick Morrisey, has ties to Cardinal Health. From Wikipedia (yeah, I know, but this snippet of information matches what is generally known in this state):

Recently, questions have arisen about Morrisey's ties to Cardinal Health, his campaign funds, and the lawsuit his predecessor filed against Cardinal Health. After his claim of recusing himself from the suit, he met privately on several occasions with representatives of the company. Additionally, Cardinal Health has paid nearly $1,500,000 to Morrisey's wife's lobbying firm. Although the West Virginia bar found that Morrisey's previous role as a lobbyist was not an ethics violation, it said his wife's association with Cardinal Health could "diminish the integrity of the process and create the appearance of impropriety." Eventually, Cardinal Health settled a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general's office by paying a $20,000,000 fine for violating consumer protection laws.

Morrisey is a carpetbagger who moved to West Virginia because he couldn't get elected in his home state of New Jersey. And he has announced that he's going to run against Joe Manchin in 2018 for the Senate.


FYI -- Eric Eyre, who wrote this story for the Charleston Gazette, won the Pulitzer Prize this year for his series of stories on the opioid crisis in West Virginia. He's a good writer, and Lily's Place is a wonderful resource for babies born addicted. My church works with NA and other local organizations on the drug crisis. Lily's Place is legit, and Cardinal Health is following the Trump playbook of countersuit when you have something to hide.