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Originally Posted by Mike AI
You can always tell when people have not had to deal with trial attorneys. Once you guys get successful enough to pop up on radar screens of the amublance chacers, come back and we can talk.
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Uhhh ... I know a little about that.
I used to work for the folks who fought the ambulance chasers. One of our clients was sued for manufacturing a defective ladder because it was unsafe if you took it apart and used the top half upside down. Another was sued several times a year because of the dangers of mixing alcohol, power saws, and body parts in your home workshop.
The lawsuits I saw and worked on related to pharma companies included some like that. There were others that would boggle your mind.
Offering limited liabilty guarantees to domestic vaccine manufacturers makes sense. I don't think that will do much help convince American pharma companies to make vaccines, however, because I believe that the reason they don't has little to do with potential liability and everything do it is the higher profit margins available from making pills to clean up your toenails.
The problem is that the bill passed by Congress come much closer to blanket relief at the expense of the consumer under the guise of protecting vaccine manufacturers.