Thank you for the links.  I'll be interested to see if it were major law firms that sponsored the studies.  ;-)

Commentators have mooted for some years that we in the U.S. would be way ahead to adopt the British style of civil jurisprudence - you may file all the lawsuits you wish, but any plaintiff that fails to make their case is presented with all the court costs at the end.  This would go a long ways toward eliminating the excesses of the casino-style system of litigation that we have in the U.S., presently.   But as I noted to Gary above, Pigs Will Fly, first ...

I would imagine that the TLA is all in favor of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system.  Instead of filing suit of mere millions or $10s of millions in damages, the sky would be the limit!  (Hundreds of millions, or billions!  After all, the Government has infinitely-deep pockets!)  :-/