| Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon Contributor(s): Champion, Walter (Author), Velasquez, Carlos A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1793652120 ISBN-13: 9781793652126 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Torts - Law | Corporate - Law | Ethics & Professional Responsibility |
| Dewey: 346.730 |
| LCCN: 2021933120 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |