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- W1591544449 abstract "Lawyers obtain the for some mass tort litigations by conducting to sign-up potential litigants en masse. These screenings have no intended benefit. Screenings are mostly held in motels, shopping center parking lots, local union offices and lawyers' offices. There, an occupational history is taken by persons with no training, a doctor may do a cursory physical exam, and technicians administer tests, including X-rays, pulmonary function tests, echocardiograms and blood tests. The sole purpose of is to generate medical evidence of the existence of an injury to be attributed to exposure to or ingestion of defendants' products. Usually a handful of doctors (litigation doctors) provide the vast majority of the thousands and tens of thousands of reports prepared for that litigation. By my count, approximately 1,500,000 potential litigants have been screened in the asbestos, silica, fen-phen (diet drugs), silicone breast implant, and welding fume litigations. Litigation doctors found that approximately 1,000,000 of those screened had the requisite condition that could qualify for compensation, such as asbestosis, silicosis, moderate mitral or mild aortic value regurgitation or a neurological disorder. I further estimate that lawyers have spent at least $500 million and as much as $1 billion to conduct these litigation screenings, paying litigation doctors and screening companies well in excess of $250 million, and obtaining contingency fees well in excess of $13 billion. On the basis of the evidence I review in this article, I conclude that approximately 900,000 of the 1,000,000 claims generated were based on diagnoses of the type that U.S. District Court Judge Janis Jack, in the silica MDL, found were manufactured for money. Despite the considerable evidence I review that most of the medical evidence produced by litigation is at least specious, I find that there is no effective mechanism in the civil justice system for reliably detecting or deterring this claim generation process. Indeed, I demonstrate how the civil justice system erects significant impediments to even exposing the specious claim generation methods used in litigation screenings. Furthermore, I present evidence that bankruptcy courts adjudicating asbestos related bankruptcies have effectively legitimized the use of these litigation screenings. I also present evidence that the criminal justice system has conferred immunity on the litigation doctors and the lawyers that hire them, granting them a special dispensation to advance specious claims. Finally, I discuss various strategies that need to be adopted to counter this assault on the integrity of the civil justice system." @default.
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- W1591544449 title "The Use of Litigation Screenings in Mass Torts: A Formula for Fraud?" @default.
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