"In the fall of 2015, a horde of lawyers from across the country descended on Las Vegas and beelined for the Bellagio Resort and Casino. They weren't in town to hear Britney Spears, immerse themselves in the Strip's glitz and glamour, or answer the siren call of the blackjack tables. But they did harbor gamblers' get-rich goals. The draw: a conference called "Mass Torts Made Perfect," held in the hotel's grand ballroom, tucked well behind its famous musical water fountain."
"A mass tort is personal-injury litigation on steroids. It's not just one fender-bender victim with whiplash out for a few thousand bucks. Nor is it a class action over $3 ATM fees that alerts consumers via junk mail. It's hundreds, thousands, and sometimes more than 100,000 people suing over life-changing physical harm from asbestos-laced baby powder, from NFL concussions, from pacemakers, hip implants, and other medical products."
Hundreds of lawyers converge on conferences like Mass Torts Made Perfect seeking to profit from large-scale personal-injury litigation. Mass torts involve many individuals suffering life-changing physical harm from products such as asbestos-laced baby powder, opioids, pacemakers, hip implants, and sports-related concussions. The field attracts both extremely wealthy insiders and ambitious newcomers hoping to tap lucrative case streams. Federal procedures centralize similar lawsuits by assigning a single judge through a judicial panel, concentrating cases from across the country into coordinated proceedings handled in one federal court.
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