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City attorney asks commission to authorize signing of remnant opioid settlement; funds to flow to Polk County plan
Summary
City Attorney John Murphy sought authority to execute a national remnant-defendant opioid settlement by DocuSign; the settlement would route any municipal share through Polk County's opioid abatement plan per an interlocal agreement; the county-level allocation to Winter Haven was not specified at the meeting.
City Attorney John Murphy told the commission the Florida Attorney General's office is administering a unified settlement involving a set of "remnant" defendants in the national opioid litigation and that municipalities participating in the state process must sign to accept the terms.
Murphy said the combined remnant defendants were reported in the…
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