More on Indictment of Dickie Scruggs, Tobacco Settlement Lawyer

Posted by Hans Bader

Overlawyered has more coverage of the indictment of Dickie Scruggs, the rich trial lawyer who helped bring about the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement that settled lawsuits by 46 states. I earlier discussed how the settlement made undeserving trial lawyers obscenely wealthy, and how it ripped off consumers — in whose name many of the lawsuits leading to the tobacco settlement were brought — here. Even the American Bar Association’s publication has taken a dim view of the settlement, as you can see here.

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11/30/2007 @ 1:40 pm | Constitutional & Legal, Economic Liberty | Comments

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    Guess you haven't sat in the room with health care executives making life or death decisions for consumers/patients and prioritizing profits/cost-cutting/money-making over better meeting the needs of their customers. If you had, you wouldn't care HOW much plaintiff lawyers make. They are vitally necessary as a check and balance against corporate wrong-doing (I'm talking life and death for unsuspecting consumers.) And when health care executives bring home annual bonuses of $60+ million, the corporate penalty for wrong-doing has to be stiff.

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