Sherman Joyce and Wendy Block: Trial lawyers pulling a Michigan jobs massacre

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When Al Capone ordered his murderous henchmen to bump off seven of “Bugs” Moran’s boys at a Chicago warehouse back on Valentine’s Day in 1929, they used machine guns to get the job done.

Now, 78 years later, some Michigan state lawmakers in Lansing, acting at the behest of personal injury lawyers, have armed themselves with a legislative proposal that could shoot holes in an important safeguard against lawsuit abuse and kill thousands of jobs.

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