Welcome to access pro rata, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak. On today's show, the U.S. and France reach an internet tax truce and how an airline failure could tank a country's entire economy.

But first, opioids and Oklahoma.

So yesterday, an Oklahoma judge found Johnson and Johnson responsible for fueling the state's

opioid epidemic, which is estimated to have led to over 6,000 deaths since the year 2000.

Now, no one from Johnson Johnson is going to jail, but the company

will need to pay $572 million in damages. Why it matters is that this is the first time ever

that a drug maker has been held liable in an opioids case, and it sets the stage for the first

federal opioids trial, which is set to take place this fall in Ohio, and the defendants there

include a large group of manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies. Before this, we had simply

seen out-of-court settlements, including a couple in Oklahoma. Now, Johnson Johnson has already

vowed to appeal, but that's probably more about not wanting to set precedent than it is about

the $572 million fine. That amount may help

Oklahoma fund lots of treatment centers, but it's less than 4% of Johnson and Johnson's

annual profits and a pittance compared to the $17 billion that Oklahoma's attorney general had

asked for. It's also way less than the $2 billion or so that Wall Street had expected,

which is why Johnson and Johnson's stock actually rose after the verdict and also rising were other drug makers who are on the hook potentially in Ohio.

So the big question now is if the Oklahoma judge has set basically a market rate or if he's an outlier, maybe just a toe in the water before the tsunami of penalties to come.

In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper with Axios Healthcare Business Reporter Bob Herman.

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