Mass torts in a world of settlement [electronic resource] / Richard A. Nagareda.

9780226567624 (ebook) :

Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos, cigarettes, guns, the diet drug fen-phen, breast implants, and, most recently, Vioxx. Richard A. Nagareda's 'Mass Torts in a World of Settlement' is the first attempt to analyze the lawyer's role in this world of high-stakes, multibillion-dollar litigation.

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September 22, 2015

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