[Isara]

Good for her!

[Carry_Okie]

When she learned that nearly two-thirds of the plaintiffs had also filed asbestos claims, the former nurse became skeptical.

This is the key. Without a technical background of any kind, judges are clueless, lacking an installed and calibrated BS meter when confronted with "expert" testimony. This woman is the exception that proves the principle.

[Onelifetogive]

Since then, more than half of those 10,000 claims have been pitched out of court or voluntarily pulled by trial lawyers — a tacit admission, we'd say, that the claims were bogus to begin with.

Should we be expecting about 5000 people to do some time for attempted fraud?

[Pilsner]

I worked many years ago for a firm that defended a client in a class action lawsuit arising out of (lets just say a huge construction project in Texas). The lawyer for the thousands of former employees had a "doctor" who did have a valid MD license, but no hospital privileges. The "doctor" certified that they were all too ill to work, even the ones who had left the construction project 10 years before, and had been gainfuly employed ever since.

As the project wound down, many of the remaining workers dutifully went to see the "doctor," were certified as unable to work and joined the lawsuit. A number of them went out and purchased big pick up trucks right before they were laid off, and allowed themselves to be talked in credit disability insurance, so they not only drew worker's comp, but also had their truck payments made for them because they were "disabled."

[SuziQ]

Thank heavens! A judge with some common sense, and who's not afraid to USE it!!

[JmyBryan]

Isn't it funny that with all the improvements in information technology, court and government procedures remain the same?

However, lawyers keep multiplying, making money and getting elected.

[righttackle44]

At last! A judge with BRAINS. After Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, how many more do you suppose there are.