Tort reform or tort retreat. Car foes : unsafe at any speed -- Car woes : Pinto combustibles -- Bendectin and birth defects -- Agent Orange -- Dalkon shield litigation -- Asbestos exposure -- The silicosis bust -- Tobacco industry litigation -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- Lockerbie and mass disasters -- Big pharma generally -- Direct-to-consumer advertising -- FDA : a wizard should know better! -- The Vioxx moment -- Hip, knee, and breast implants -- Football concussions -- College football players, Larry Nassar, and the culture of rape -- Tort reform or tort retreat.
Summary:
"[The] authors ... look at mass tort litigation in a variety of formats including lawsuits against manufacturers and Big Pharma. The authors argue that without the personal injury bar, outrageous examples of rampant corporate greed would continue to this day. They reference many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, concussions in the NFL, and the Boeing 737 Max scandal. [Tort] reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. ... [The authors] argue that attorneys are the only means to alleviate the excesses of corporate greed by showing multiple cases of mistakes that were purposefully ignored because of the quest for corporate gain. Big corporations live by a cost/benefit analysis that allow and even foster the inevitable lawsuit which results from their greed."--Back cover.
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