Business Week 's cover story explores some of the methods by which mass litigation gets ever more effective at extracting money from its targets. Philadelphia juries pummel doctors. In that case we just wouldn t have purchased the property. Instead, we had months of uncertainty after the purchase. Dominick Steo of Holbrook shot himself in the head in 1999.
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