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More on Indictment of Dickie Scruggs, Tobacco Settlement Lawyer

Started by cordblomquist · 2 months ago

Overlawyered has more coverage of the indictment of Dickie Scruggs, the rich trial lawyer who helped bring about the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement that settled lawsuits by 46 states. I earlier discussed how the settlement made undeserving trial lawyers obscenely wealthy, and how it ripped ... Continue reading »

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  • Guess you haven't sat in the room with health care executives making life or death decisions for consumers/patients and prioritizing profits/cost-cutting/money-making over better meeting the needs of their customers. If you had, you wouldn't care HOW much plaintiff lawyers make. They are vitally necessary as a check and balance against corporate wrong-doing (I'm talking life and death for unsuspecting consumers.) And when health care executives bring home annual bonuses of $60+ million, the corporate penalty for wrong-doing has to be stiff.

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