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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, concussions in the NFL, and the Boeing 737 Max scandal. Text 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.
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.
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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