Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

This book looks 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. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, and concussions in the NFL. Tort reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous.

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.

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Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

This book looks 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. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, and concussions in the NFL. Tort reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous.

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.

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Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon

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This book looks 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. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, and concussions in the NFL. Tort reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781793652133
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 06/22/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 226
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Walter Champion is law professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, and an adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.

Carlos A. Velasquez is founding partner of VelasquezDolan, P.A., Plantation, Florida.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Feeding Frenzy Mentality

Chapter 2: Car Foes: Unsafe at Any Speed

Chapter 3: Car Woes: Pinto Combustibles

Chapter 4: Bendectin and Birth Defects

Chapter 5: Agent Orange

Chapter 6: Dalkon Shield Litigation

Chapter 7: Asbestos Exposure

Chapter 8: The Silicosis Bust

Chapter 9: Tobacco Industry Litigation

Chapter 10: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

Chapter 11: Lockerbie and Mass Disasters

Chapter 12: Big Pharma Generally

Chapter 13: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

Chapter 14: FDA: A Wizard Should Know Better!

Chapter 15: The Vioxx Moment

Chapter 16: Hip, Knee, and Breast Implants

Chapter 17: Football Concussions

Chapter 18: College Football Players, Larry Nassar, and the Culture of Rape

Chapter 19: Tort Reform or Tort Retreat

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