Walgreens has not settled, and a trial has been rescheduled for June 2023. "We believe that we have a very strong case against Walgreens," Morrisey said at a news conference. "We're going to pursue that quite vigorously." Kroger Co. will also be a defendant in the rescheduled June 2023 trial. West Virginia has been particularly hard hit by the epidemic, with a per capita opioid mortality rate over three times the national average in 2020, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics.