Common Contracts

Agreement on Attorneys’ Fees, Expenses and Costs

Expenses and Costs • April 19th, 2022 • Ohio

• Contract Type
  Expenses and Costs
• Filed
  April 19th, 2022
• Jurisdiction
  Ohio

This Agreement on Attorneys’ Fees, Expenses and Costs (“Fee Agreement”) is entered between McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Inc., and AmerisourceBergen Corporation (collectively, the “Settling Distributors”), and the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee appointed in the multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of Ohio, National Prescription Opiate Litigation, No. 1:17-MD-2804 (“MDL PEC”), in connection with the Distributor Settlement Agreement (“Distributor Agreement”). This Fee Agreement becomes effective on the Effective Date of the Distributor Agreement or the date that the Consent Judgments anticipated under the Distributor Agreement become final in 25 Settling States (whichever is later). However, costs specified in Sections II.I and II.I.4 of this Fee Agreement that are to be funded pre-Effective Date by the Settling Distributors are effective upon agreement in writing with the Settling Distributors.