Thursday, March 16, 2006
Silicosis - Lawyers On Trial
Is this like getting caught with your hand in the till?
This followed one of those "do you think you might have been exposed" advertising campaigns...
This followed one of those "do you think you might have been exposed" advertising campaigns...
Investors Business Daily reports on the silicosis law suits:
"In a 250-page ruling, Jack bluntly said the 10,000 claims of silicosis before her were part of a 'scheme' that was 'manufactured for money.' Since then, more than half of those 10,000 claims have been pitched out of court or voluntarily pulled by trial lawyers — a tacit admission, we'd say, that the claims were bogus to begin with."
"Some doctors' shameful willingness to make questionable diagnoses of silicosis to fill up class-action lawsuits has caught the attention of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. On Wednesday, the panel invited a few physicians in for a chat. Two were forced to testify by subpoena, and all three took the Fifth."
