http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O’Quinn
Making his name in handling plaintiff’s litigation, among O’Quinn’s biggest wins were:[3]
- $1 billion verdict in 2006 against Wyeth Laboratory for its diet drug, fen-phen
- $17.3 billion tobacco settlement for the state of Texas
- $100 million for silicone breast implants made by Dow Corning
In total, O’Quinn is estimated to have won $1.5 billion for the firm of The O’Quinn Law Firm of Houston, Texas. According to a 2006 article in Forbes, O’Quinn’s own firm had pending cases against stock brokers and hedge funds for shorting the shares of weak companies, and against Ford for rollover accidents caused by the Ford Explorer.
The trial lawyers are the vehicle the leftists use to enforce the over-regulation of business by obtaining obscene monetary awards.
These days, the only things that are ‘unsafe at any speed’ are the would-be tyrants in Washington.
Need photo of widow O’Quinn.
I may want to send flowers.
The tobacco scam by lawyers makes them a quick billion.
As a plastic surgeon for over 30 yrs., the silicone inplant
scam was totally driven by greedy trail lawyers, spouting faulty science as gosple for their own profit to an unsuspecting public. After 20 yrs. of intensive research all the old alligations have been disproved and silicone
implants are back on the market. Winners by billions are the lawyers. Losers are women subjected to inferior saline implants (both cosmetic and reconstructive), manufacturers with loss of business and trail defense costs and doctors sued for ??damages??.