Blood in the Water: Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon - Hardcover

by Walter Champion (Author), Carlos A. Velasquez (Author)

This book looks at mass tort litigation in a variety of formats including lawsuits against manufacturers and Big Pharma. The authors argue that without the personal injury bar, outrageous examples of rampant corporate greed would continue to this day. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, and concussions in the NFL. Tort reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous.
The authors argue that attorneys are the only means to alleviate the excesses of corporate greed by showing multiple cases of mistakes that were purposefully ignored because of the quest for corporate gain. Big corporations live by a cost/benefit analysis that allow and even foster the inevitable lawsuit which results from their greed.

Author Biography

Walter Champion is law professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, and an adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.

Carlos A. Velasquez is founding partner of VelasquezDolan, P.A., Plantation, Florida.