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Loser-pays and the Vioxx settlement

By Walter Olson

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The tension between the interests of relatively strong and relatively weak claimants -- which helps to stretch legal ethics to the breaking point in the Vioxx settlement -- would be more manageable if we adopted the sensible incentives of loser-pays....

Full post as published by Point of Law on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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