Prosecution for profit

The vulture mentality of trial lawyers can now use the court system as a legal playground for the purpose of extortion of funds from targeted defendants. Today it is tobacco, tomorrow will be a different target, take your choice. They will use the billions of dollars they get from a tobacco bill to file suits against other industries creating a nightmare in our legal system. That's their track record and that's their plan.

Already, we have seen utility companies, financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies the target of multi-state lawsuits to extort more money from legitimate businesses.

It wasn't that long ago that lawyer greed was behind forcing Dow Corning into bankruptcy by thousands of unfounded plaintiff claims that Dow´s silicone breast implants caused health problems. The company acquiesced, and settled the billion dollar claims against it. Later, an independent panel of 13 scientists concluded that silicone breast implants do not cause any major diseases. The study, conducted by the Institute of Medicine at the request of Congress, is only the latest in a series of research studies concluding that there is no scientific evidence to support the breast implant lawsuits.

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