Cory Doctorow<p>Litigation finance&#39;s first big scores was going after med-tech and pharma companies. A lax regulatory environment allowed medical companies to market deadly products that maimed or killed people wholesale - think <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Vioxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vioxx</span></a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/VaginalMeshes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VaginalMeshes</span></a> or <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/MetalOnMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetalOnMetal</span></a> hip replacements (a doc about this, *The Bleeding Edge*, will give you persistent nightmares):</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bleeding_Edge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blee</span><span class="invisible">ding_Edge</span></a></p><p>16/</p>