{"id":384,"date":"2024-11-11T07:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/kroger-to-pay-nearly-1-4-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuit-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:44:49","slug":"kroger-to-pay-nearly-1-4-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuit-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kroger-to-pay-nearly-1-4-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuit-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger to pay nearly $1.4 billion to settle opioid lawsuit claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket chain Kroger has finalized a nearly\u00a0$1.4 billion agreement to settle the majority of the claims made by states, counties and Native American tribes that accused the company of helping fuel the opioid epidemic.\u00a0 Payments are expected to begin early next year. The amount includes up to $1.2 billion for state and local governments where&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4971152-kroger-opioid-settlement-claims\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket chain Kroger has finalized a nearly\u00a0$1.4 billion agreement to settle the majority of the claims made by states, counties and Native American tribes that accused the company of helping fuel the opioid epidemic.\u00a0 Payments are expected to begin early next year. The amount includes up to $1.2 billion for state and local governments where&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}