4A TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 TIMES RECORDER Harold E. 95 Zanesville 10-Sep Bryan andHardwick FunerlaHome Beverly 85 Somerset 15-Sep J.E. Humphrey Funeral Home Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at www.ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com/Obituaries OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements ZANESVILLE Har- old Israel, 95, passed September 10, 2019. Friends may call 4:00 to 7:00 PM Sep- tember 18th at Bryan Hardwick Funeral Home and from 10:00 to 11:00 AM on September 19th with funeral service 11:00 AM at St. Lu- theran Church.
Burial at Pleasant Grove Cem- etery. Bryan Hardwick Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. To see full obituary please visit www.Bry- anHardwickFH.com. Harold E. Israel SOMERSET Beverly Pierce, 85, of Somerset, formerly of Corning, passed away on Sunday Sept 15, 2019 at the Gen- esis Perry County Medi- cal Center Somerset.
She was born April 11, 1934, in Crooksville a daughter of the late Mar- ion and Clara (Hines) Driggs. Bev was a wife, mother, and grand-mother, a retired employee of LGAR of Canal Winchester, a former member of both the Nelsonville Moose Lodge and the Corning Eagles. Surviving are her son Marion( Linda) Pierce; her daughters Christy (Chris) Murphy and Debra Halsey; grandchildren Tara Butch) McGrath Troy Brooke) Pierce, Kyle Halsy, J.C. Murphy, Lindsay Jordan) Lee, Jenna (Andrew) Fulk, and Brandi Pierce; great- grandchildren Stephen, Ma- riah, AJ, Parker, Kaleb, Allieonna, Xavier, Cooper, Hannah, and Karter; several nieces and nephews. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Clifford Pierce, her sister Elaine West; her brother Gweldon Driggs, her step-faher Guy Tanner and an infant sister Friends may call from 3-6pm on Wednesday September 18, 2019 at the J.E.
Humphrey Funeral Home 118 W. Walnut Street, Shawnee. Funeral services will be conducted at with Rev Carolyn Hoskinson officiating. Following services cremation will take place. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in memory of Bev may be made to The Perry County Senior Center 520 First Street New Lexington, OH 43764.
To sign the online guestbook please visit www. jehumphreyfuneralhomeshawnee.com Beverly Pierce Obituaries KNOXVILLE, Tenn. In the rul- ing of its kind in Tennessee, an appel- late court said opioid makers who act like drug dealers can be treated like drug dealers. The state Court of Appeals last week ruled opioid makers Endo Pharmaceuti- cals, Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceu- ticals can be sued as drug dealers and district attorneys general have the right to sue them. It is the test of an experimental use of an unusual Tennessee law known as the Drug Dealer Liability Act to hold opioid makers responsible for the opiate epidemic that claims thousands of lives in the state annually.
In its ruling, the court struck down a decision last year by 8th Judicial Dis- trict Circuit Court Judge John McAfee. Siding with opioid argument, McAfee ruled drug makers be con- sidered drug dealers because the prod- uct they deal opioids are legal and approved for distribution by the Food and Drug Administration. The appellate court, though, said McAfee and drug makers are wrong. Court: Big Pharma drug dealers manufacturers cannot, as is al- leged here, knowingly seek out suspect doctors and pharmacies, oversupply them with opioids for the purpose of di- version, from the process, and then cynically invoke their status as otherwise lawful companies to avoid civil Appellate Judge D. Mi- chael Swiney wrote.
common perception of a drug dealer may be that of the street dealer, but the DDLA does not make that dis- the opinion said. allegations are correct (opioid) manu- facturer defendants knowingly the areas with drugs they knew were to be diverted. is the basis for civil liability un- der the DDLA whether headquar- ters is an building or a back the court ruled. DA: in ruling Fourteen prosecutors representing 47 counties in Middle and East Tennes- see in 2017 lawsuits against opioid makers, including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and distributors under the Tennessee Drug Dealer Liability Act. It was a new twist on that law which allows third to sue drug dealers for damages and a new front on the nationwide legal battle to try to hold Big Pharma ac- countable for the deadly epidemic its opioid drugs have caused.
One of those lawsuits by top prosecutors in East Tennessee judicial districts including Campbell, Knox, An- derson, Sevier, Roane, Loudon and Bradley counties is the to put this new twist on the law to the legal test. It was that lawsuit, on behalf of the prosecutors by Nashville law Branstetter, Stranch and Jennings, McAfee shot down before a trial could be held. The prosecutors appealed. The appellate decision means the case can now move forward. is a substantial victory for the cities and counties represented in this case, and sound of our com- 8th Judicial District Attorney General Jared said in a statement.
look forward to bringing this case to trial and holding these companies ac- countable for the damage they have in- Lawsuits and settlements Tennessee logs more opiate prescrip- tions per capita than any state in the na- tion except West Virginia. In just two years, Tennessee pharmacies 12 million prescriptions for opioids. The annual death toll from opioid overdoses in the state has climbed steadily in the last decade, with 1,837 logged by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion in 2018 alone. Internal records from Purdue Pharma and its fellow opioid makers show the targeted Tennessee doctors who had a history of overprescribing opiates, coupons to addicts, lied to both doctors and patients about the addictive properties and the approval process at the FDA with sham experts they secretly funded. Tennessee prosecutors opted in 2017 to take action against Big Pharma after accusing the Tennessee attorney gener- of inaction.
They noted the state attorney gener- under current Attorney Gen- eral Herbert predecessor was part of a 2007 settlement with Purdue Pharma. In that case, Tennessee received roughly $720,000 of the $19.5 million settlement. Of that money, $400,000 went to cover fees for the at- torney general, according to the district attorneys. The prosecutors also pointed out the attorney had authority under that settlement to force Big Phar- ma and its partners to reveal when com- munities received shipments of more opiates than population but did noth- ing. Several East Tennessee county gov- ernments also have suit in recent years against Big Pharma via racketeer- ing laws and federal court, where U.S.
District Judge Dan Aaron Polster of Ohio has been chosen to marshal known as a multidistrict litigation. States split on settlement talks Authorities have announced a tenta- tive settlement involving roughly half the states and local governments who are suing. Under that agreement, Pur- due would for a structured bank- ruptcy and pay as much as $12 billion over time. But several states are refusing to sign on and vow to continue Purdue even as members of the Sackler family have bankruptcy. also has pending law- suits against Purdue and Endo in Knox County Circuit Court.
Samantha Fisher, a spokeswoman for that said those lawsuits would be dismissed as part of that tentative settlement. plan, if approved in a struc- tured bankruptcy proceeding for Pur- due Pharma, would secure billions of dollars nationwide to go toward ad- dressing the devastating of the opioid epidemic and will result in the Sackler family divesting themselves of their business interests in the pharma- ceutical industry Fisher ex- plained. Court: Big Pharma like Tenn. ruling sets stage for civil liability action A Tennessee court has found a state law does not distinguish between street drug dealers and drug manufacturers who oversupply a region with product. AP Jamie Satterfield Knoxville News Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK TENNESSEE For the past 38 years, Punctuation spent her days swimming the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean along the eastern coast of the United States and Can- ada, her belly with tons of tiny plankton.
Over those four decades, she gave birth to new generations of endangered North Atlantic right whales, escaped several entanglements in gear with plenty of scars to prove it, and even became a grandmother. But in June she was added to the list of 28 North Atlantic right whales that have been killed in the last two years. Experts say some of her also suf- fered similar fates. not seeing them live and die of natural causes said Whitney Webber, Oceana campaign director. breeding females are in- credibly important for the Now Oceana, an international ocean conservancy group, is calling on Canadian and American to place more restrictions on shipping speeds and gear that federal scientists suspect played a key role in at least 15 of those 28 deaths.
are very worried about the heavy, heavy ship Webber said. As ocean waters warm, these whales are having to chase their food farther north into territories that may mean more exposure to and vessels, he said. Oceana wants to see shipping speeds slowed and limitations on ropes and other gear used in commer- cial endeavors throughout the right range. Canadian adopted some restrictions last year in light of the whale deaths, but Webber says more needs to be done. regulated our for two decades to reduce incidental entanglement of the right she said of U.S.
rules. been to say the There are an estimated 450 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, about 100 of which are breeding females, experts say. But in recent years, deaths have far outpaced births. There are so few left that many, like Punctuation, have been named or can be by scientists. down to that kind of she said.
so few whales left that we know who they Advocates: More must be done to save right whales Maddy Lauria Delaware News Journal USA TODAY NETWORK.
