Michigan Judge: Insurers Fail To Establish Opioid Distributor Is Forum Shopping

(June 14, 2023, 9:55 AM EDT) -- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan judge denied insurers’ motion to dismiss an opioid distributor insured’s lawsuit seeking coverage for underlying lawsuits seeking damages for bodily injury caused by the insured’s distribution and/or dispensing of opioid medications, finding that the insured’s home state of Michigan is the proper forum and the insurers failed to demonstrate that the insured was forum shopping....