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January 31, 2008


Loser-pays and the Vioxx settlement

The tension between the interests of relatively strong and relatively weak claimants -- which helps to stretch legal ethics to the breaking point in the Vioxx settlement -- would be more manageable if we adopted the sensible incentives of loser-pays. Thus argues PoL's own Marie Gryphon in this new piece at City Journal.

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Loser Pays
Vioxx/Drug Litigation









 

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