This week’s podcast takes a close look at a single case that exposed the underbelly of the mass tort litigation system, which is supposed to provide relief for patients unnecessarily harmed by faulty medical products and questionable procedures.
The case involved thousands of women injured by transvaginal mesh implants. University of Georgia law professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, in her new book, “The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America’s Lawsuit Factory,” reveals how many of these women were twice victimized — first by the manufacturer, and then a second time by the unscrupulous lawyers, doctors and financial middlemen who tricked them into unnecessary operations, stole their money and left them worse off.
It’s a story that will make you angry, and leave you wondering anew why the federal government has all the money in the world to go after penny-ante fraud in immigrant communities, but does nothing to stop fraudsters from stealing litigation settlement payments from twice-injured patients.
This week’s podcast is an eye-opener, and certainly worth a half hour of your time.
