Allocation Map

Note: the Allocation Map was created in connection with the proposed (now rejected) Negotiation Class in the Opioids MDL. There is no active Special Needs Fund or Private Attorneys' Fee Fund associated with the rejected class. The Allocation Map calculations currently assume a purely hypothetical $750 million fund (for reference only). An updated version of the Allocation Map is planned that will simply provide percentages instead of dollar amount allocations (from which percentages can be derived).

Select a State and County, then press Submit. The allocation amount is based on a hypothetical $1 billion gross settlement for Counties and Cities, of which $150 million will be reserved for the Class Members’ Special Needs Fund(i) and $100 million will be reserved for a Private Attorneys’ Fee Fund(ii), which results in $750 million for the Initial Distribution to Counties & Cities.

iApplications may be made to the Special Needs Fund by any Class member. Distributions from the Special Needs Fund to Class members are allowed for: (1) a Class member to recover its own costs of litigating its lawsuit; and (2) to obtain additional relief for any local impact of the opioids crisis that is not captured by the Class member’s automatic allocation. Applications will be made to and approved by a court-appointed Special Master, on a case-by-case basis. Any unawarded amount remaining in this Special Needs Fund would revert to the Class.

iiThe Private Attorneys’ Fee Fund (up to but no more than 10% of any Class settlement) is intended to address county and city private counsels’ attorneys’ fees obligations in lieu of contingency fee contracts.