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Majority of the high-profile product liability lawsuits in U.S. courts are brought as class actions, from tobacco and asbestos to pacemakers and diet drugs. What started as a procedure for aggregating multiple claims in complex civil litigation has evolved into an immensely complicated and unwieldy form of litigation, in which an attorney actively offers representation to a class of consumers who have allegedly been injured by a product, files a case on their behalf, and if the lawsuit is successful, the individual class members get a very small share of a huge damages award, while the attorney gets one-third.
Whereas personal injury class actions often are not certified in drug cases because of the prevalence of case-specific factual issues, there is a growing trend of courts certifying classes in consumer fraud cases brought by third party payors, such as health plans and insurance companies, seeking refunds of moneys spent on allegedly defective drugs. Recent federal guidelines expanded the jurisdiction of Federal courts in class action suits and is likely to reduce some of the abusive cases brought in some state courts.
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