That Didn’t Take Long…
Saturday, I posted a link to an article on Carl Zimmer’s “The Loom” about the E. coli outbreak. Monday, there were several media reports about a woman from the West Coast who’s already filed a lawsuit.
Just now, this Google Ad appeared on my blog:
E. coli Infection Lawsuit
Bagged Spinach Linked to E. coli
Free Lawsuit Case Consultation
Beyond the issue of sleazy class-action lawyers using Google to troll for clients (and no doubt signing up plenty of people looking for a jackpot), is the issue of what these guys will make. If it’s like most class-action suits I’ve seen in the technology biz, the attorneys will nail down a payday of between six and ten million dollars, and the members of the class will end up with coupons for a couple of bags of spinach.
This is exactly why there’s a need for tort reform: the real winners are the lawyers, and the little guy ends up with a whole lot of “not much”. It’s just wrong.
If you’re reading this via rss, come on by, and if the ad’s still running, see for yourself what these sleazebags are saying.
