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1. Yes, many lawyers are greedy, unscrupulous, and incompetent, to boot.
2. Sadly, however, we need lawyers.
3. There are so many bad people in every country that lawyers are our only defense against bad people, and in many cases that defense is useless.
4. Let's face it: Bad as many lawyers are, we need them to protect us from individuals and groups who are always trying to find ways to rip us off.
a. Human beings are no darn good!
There is not a drug, a chemical, or a product on the US market that is immune from smart greedy lawyers who know how to manipulate juries to find guilt where no guilt lies in order to procure million or billion dollar settlements for themselves and their participants. If Perdue declares bankruptcy, however, the states, individuals and others hoping to glean billions of dollars in settlements from them for supposedly being evil for supplying successful prescription drugs to the public will be disappointed.
Unfair, frivolous, and inaccurate lawsuits can bring companies down, can hinder research and development, can discourage progress and innovation, and make people less safe and healthy, but the promise of huge windfalls from crafty litigation drives the legal profession to new heights of irresponsible selfishness.
A confidential Justice Department report found the company was aware early on that OxyContin was being crushed and snorted for its powerful narcotic, but continued to promote it as less addictive.
Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused - The New York Times
Justice is imperfect, and you get the Justice Department you get.
Perdue pharma:
1. Yes, many lawyers are greedy, unscrupulous, and incompetent, to boot.
2. Sadly, however, we need lawyers.
3. There are so many bad people in every country that lawyers are our only defense against bad people, and in many cases that defense is useless.
4. Let's face it: Bad as many lawyers are, we need them to protect us from individuals and groups who are always trying to find ways to rip us off.
a. Human beings are no darn good!
Have you ever used 'Roundup' and then gotten sick later for whatever reason? If so there are lawyers who want to tie your illness to the product in view so they can build a case for convincing gullible juries that the product caused all the different diseases in the book. The claim does not have to be proven true, the lawyers just need to convince a dozen gullible people that it is true.
Hasn't Roundup been proven to be carcinogenic? If it's manufacturers knew about it and concealed its dangers, they should be liable.
Everything in the chemical world is a possible carcinogenic. Lawyers and liars deceive ignorant juries that chemical companies are bad, their officers are wicked and greedy and everything they do is directed at deceiving stupid people into buying and using their product. That is a lie, of course. What would be closer to the truth would be to say that many immoral lawyers are greedy, dishonest, self-serving and wickedly manipulate stupid people to find big businesses at serious fault where no fault exists so that they can immorally, unethically and even illegally rob those big businesses of millions of dollars for themselves to feed their selfish opulent lifestyles.
There is not a drug, a chemical, or a product on the US market that is immune from smart greedy lawyers who know how to manipulate juries to find guilt where no guilt lies in order to procure million or billion dollar settlements for themselves and their participants. If Perdue declares bankruptcy, however, the states, individuals and others hoping to glean billions of dollars in settlements from them for supposedly being evil for supplying successful prescription drugs to the public will be disappointed.
Unfair, frivolous, and inaccurate lawsuits can bring companies down, can hinder research and development, can discourage progress and innovation, and make people less safe and healthy, but the promise of huge windfalls from crafty litigation drives the legal profession to new heights of irresponsible selfishness.
If this is as you say, Perdue just has to hire better lawyers. The thing about truth is that it will come through. If he is defending the truth, a lawyer should be able to cut through the bull**** and obfuscation of the other side and make that clear to an impartial jury. Are you now going to tell me that the jury is stupid or corrupt or somehow in on all this?
Source?
Yes, I'm saying juries can be easily misled to do the wrong thing by immoral lawyers just out to extort big money from deep pockets for their own narcissistic reasons.
Hasn't Roundup been proven to be carcinogenic? If it's manufacturers knew about it and concealed its dangers, they should be liable.
Perhaps a look at this will help:
https://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/guest_commentary/american_litigation_crisis.htm
AMERICA'S LITIGATION CRISIS
...16.5 million lawsuits in a typical year...
Some 60,000 jobs have been lost due just to bankruptcies caused by asbestos litigation, which ripple through state and local economies. For every 10 jobs directly lost due to these bankruptcies, another eight are lost in local economies.
...A big part of the solution is to put fair and reasonable limits on punitive damage awards. Many of these awards are excessive and out of control. In 2002, the top 10 jury awards alone totaled more than $32.7 billion.
...We also have to recognize that trial lawyers have spent millions to stack the deck in favor of abusive lawsuits -- $470 million alone on federal campaigns since 1990.
I agree with the conclusion expressed by this author. "We will not end this litigation crisis until we recognize it exists.
Current consensus is that it is not carcinogenic and the only cases brought thusfar involve ignoring the instructions on the product label. Which brings us to intended use. Should a company be held liable for the consequences of misuse of their product? Especially when it is not the party responsible for writing the prescriptions?
Of course not. If that's true, I doubt the case will go anywhere.
I would expect it to because, unfortunately, the standard of proof in civil courts is far lower than in criminal courts.
Perdue is a large and wealthy company. If they can't find a lawyer smart and capable enough to successfully defend them, maybe it's because they're guilty. It's guilt that must be proved, not innocence.
Oh no's. Where am I gonna get some oxy now. :thinking
Current consensus is that it is not carcinogenic and the only cases brought thusfar involve ignoring the instructions on the product label. Which brings us to intended use. Should a company be held liable for the consequences of misuse of their product? Especially when it is not the party responsible for writing the prescriptions?
Bayer has since disputed this story, but if there is any basis, then they seem to feel there is liability here.
Bayer Looking to Settle Roundup Lawsuits for $8 Billion • Legal Scoops
It’s not an admission of liability so much as acknowledgement that a civil court could and probably would hold them liable regardless of the facts. They have experienced that before.
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