Posted by jane d on May 29, 2009, at 23:39:59
In reply to Re: Are the drugs that we're taking killing us?, posted by Neal on May 29, 2009, at 22:19:48
> i didn't read all the replies but; where are the million-dollar payouts we should be reading about in the newspapers?
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> in this litigious society, if there was one iota of evidence of someone's dying from ADs, it would be broadcast from coast-to-coast in 2 seconds, followed by thousands of lawsuits filed the next day.Not true! But if you'd like this to be true bug your legislator to outlaw "gag agreements" in court settlements as being against the public interest. Right now you just can't tell whether or not there are big payoffs being made to keep complaints quiet in all sorts of industries. It's become standard to pay off plaintiffs providing they agree never to disclose the amount of settlement or even that they had a complaint in the first place. Good for the plaintiff, good for the offending company, but definately bad for all the rest of us. And an abuse of the court systems we all pay for.
poster:jane d
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