All Americans are paying for mass tort lawsuits — even those who have never heard of this type of litigation. These profit-driven legal maneuvers can make attorneys wealthy, but they drain everyone else’s economic resources.
Mass tort litigations are lawsuits that involve multiple individual plaintiffs, sometimes thousands of them, seeking damages from defendants, usually corporations, over real or imagined harms caused by some product. Although some cases are legitimate, many are instigated by attorneys, not the allegedly injured parties, who use giant advertising campaigns to locate people they can claim have suffered harm. It’s a complete reversal of the normal legal process, which begins with the injured party going to an attorney for help.
