Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by flooding its communities with hundreds of millions of doses of addictive painkillers.

Kentucky is set to receive $110 million from a settlement with Kroger that will go to addressing the opioid crisis, Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Thursday. This comes nearly a year after Coleman sued Kroger,

The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay Kentucky $110 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging it pumped millions of doses of opioids into the state over the course of more than a decade. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) announced the settlement Thursday,

Kentucky's attorney general says the state will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic

Kentucky has reached a settlement with Kroger that will bring over $100 million to the commonwealth in support of efforts to combat the opioid crisis. Attorney General Russell Coleman announced the $1

The lawsuit, filed last year, accused Kroger pharmacies of dispensing 11 percent of all opioid pills statewide over 13 years, totaling 444 million doses.