Mass Torts
Mass Tort litigation is a fairly new area of law which has been created out of advances in production and distribution of products.
A Mass Tort is when many people are injured in a similar fashion by the same product. Since the victims experienced a similar situation, it allows their claims to be heard together.
Mass Torts can be distinguished from other personal injury claims by three distinctive features. First, a Mass Tort involves large numbers of claims that are linked with a single product or company like OxyContin claims and Tainted Tissues claims. Second, despite the number of claimants, there are factual and legal issue commonalities. Third, there is a value interdependence between the different claims.
Some examples of Mass Tort litigation include product liability claims, large business antitrust claims, and large scale manmade disasters (e.g., apartment fires, industrial plant explosions, airplane crashes).
When a product that is released to the public turns out to be dangerous and causes serious injuries, the injured deserve to be compensated for resulting medical bills, pain and suffering, lost wages, and more.
Mass Torts is one of the few areas of legal practice which requires a great deal of financial backing and a large support staff to handle the cases. Handling multi-plaintiff claims requires the assistance of numerous mass torts attorneys, paralegals, and a large support staff. Morgan & Morgan has the financial strength, knowledge base, and extensive resources to locate the experts required to litigate Mass Tort claims.
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Top Verdicts & Settlements
Here are some of our recent settlements and verdicts:
Failure to perform a timely C-section resulting in serious injury.
15-year-old girl involved in rear end motor vehicle accident suffered paralysis from the waist down.
Delay in diagnosing rectal cancer in 40 year old female resulting in permanent colostomy, removal of part of liver due to spread of the cancer and lung metastasis.
Failure to diagnose TB Meningitis of a 5-year-old girl.
Automobile accident case resulting in brain injury to plaintiff. Plaintiff was in a coma for nearly 1 month and had to receive 2 months of brain injury rehabilitation.
Failure of nursing staff to monitor vital signs in post cesarean patient resulting in seizure activity and severe brain damage.
Case involved a 42 year old woman who suffered a cardiac arrest leading to brain damage which left her in a permanent vegatative state. Claim was that her doctor missed (and thus failed to treat) underlying heart disease which lead to her cardiac arrest.
Premises liability claim resulting in severe brain damage to husband and father.
Obstretical negligence, brain injury to newborn.
Wrongful death of 32-year-old husband and father due to fatal anaphylactic reaction.
