Welcome to the Class Action Settlement Website for Acute Care Hospital Claims in the Sackler Parties Settlement

If you are an Acute Care Hospital that treated patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder and/or other opioid-related conditions, you may qualify for payment from class action settlement totaling $174,215,320.82. If you are included, your legal rights will be affected whether you act or don’t act.
Please read this carefully.

What is the Settlement about?

A settlement (“Settlement”), which could total up to $174,215,320.82 million^[1] with defendants David Sackler, Ilene Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Mortimer D.A. Sackler, Richard Sackler, the estate of Beverly Sackler by and through its executors Richard Sackler and David Sackler, the estate of Jonathan Sackler by and through its executor Garrett Lynam, and the estate of Raymond Sackler by and through its executors Richard Sackler and David Sackler (collectively, “Settling Defendants”) has been reached in a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that to sell as many prescription opioids as possible, Settling Defendants and opioid manufacturers misrepresented the risks and safety of prescription opioid use, and conspired with others to promote their improper use, including  distributors who did not properly monitor, stop, or report suspicious orders, and pharmacies who filled opioid prescriptions that were not written for legitimate medical purposes. The lawsuit further alleges that as a result, acute care hospitals must now spend additional money and resources to treat opioid-dependent patients and patients with opioid-related conditions that they would not have had to treat otherwise. Defendants deny that they did anything wrong. The Court has not decided who is right.

Under the Settlement, the Settling Defendants agreed to pay money to resolve the claims against them.

A settlement has now been reached with all of the Defendants in this case.

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[1] In the unlikely event that one or more of the Settling Defendants does not make their respective payment, the Settlement Amount will be reduced by the amount of that Settling Defendant’s specified contribution. In that event, Acute Care Hospitals will not release claims against that Settling Defendant. Separately, the Settlement Amount may be reduced by the Opt-Out Reduction Amount as detailed in Section IV(B) of the Settlement Agreement.

Who is included in the Class?

All Acute Care Hospitals in the United States that (i) are not owned or operated by a federal, state, county, parish, city, or other municipal government; (ii) treated patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder and/or other opioid-related conditions at any time from January 1, 2009, through March 20, 2026; and (iii) are not physician practice groups.

Even if you are part of the Class, you may be excluded from participating in the Settlement if your claims against a Defendant were released in an earlier settlement.

Click here for access to the Settlement Agreement.

How do I participate in the Class Action Settlement?

Step 1:
Complete the Registration Form electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded by clicking here and must be emailed to Sacklerinfo@acutecarehospitalsettlement.com;

If the “Quick Pay” option is selected on the Registration Form in Section E, a completed IRS Form W-9 (or IRS Form W-8, if applicable), which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded from www.acutecarehospitalsettlement.com must also be emailed to Sacklerinfo@acutecarehospitalsettlement.com with the Registration Form.  If the “Quick Pay” option is NOT selected, a Class Member must complete the steps outlined in Items 3-6 below;

Step 2:
Once the Registration Form is received, the Notice and Claims Administrators will communicate instructions to you for accessing a secure file transfer protocol (“SFTP”);

Step 3:
Complete the Business Associate and Confidentiality Agreement (the “BAA”) electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded clicking here, and submit it via SFTP;

Step 4:
The Notice and Claims Administrators will provide you with an executed BAA via the SFTP to download for your records;

Step 5:
Complete the Claim Form, as applicable, electronically, which is a fillable PDF that can be downloaded clicking here; and

Step 6:
Submit the completed Claim Form with all supporting documents and information requested therein, along with the requisite claims data as described in Section F.8 of the Claim Form, via SFTP.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BAA, CLAIM FORM, AND ACCOMPANYING CLAIMS DATA ABOVE SHALL NOT BE SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL. Instead, by submitting the Registration Form described in Item 1 above, you will receive instructions for accessing an SFTP to which the BAA, the Claim Form, and accompanying requisite claims data must be submitted.

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