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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2019

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Brooke Melton (GM), Michelle Pfeleger (Yasmin/Yaz), Linda Isner (Vioxx), Gene Weeks (Vioxx), Trudy Thomas (Kugel Mesh), Erika Langhart (NuvaRing), and David Foscue (Zimmer) are but a handful of the faces behind multidistrict litigation statistics. Stories like theirs lurk within many of the more than 312,500 actions included in this book’s dataset. In each case, it would be easy to pin blame on the lawyers, the FDA, the company, or the doctors. But targeting only one paints an incomplete picture and misses the point: there are problems with each that affect, reflect, and amplify failings elsewhere.

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systemic problemsDePuy ASREssureFDAprivate attorneys’ general
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Mass Tort Deals
Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation
 , pp. 215 - 222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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