Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours agoFrom what I know about the US, this entire thread seems like a wet dream of a lawyer working on commission.
Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours agoFrom what I know about the US, this entire thread seems like a wet dream of a lawyer working on commission.
orclev@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nah, the pharmaceutical companies have covered themselves via reams of fine print. Using any of the GCMs (or pumps for that matter) means signing away all your legal protections and even if it didn’t the companies have billion dollar lawyers that can easily crush any case brought against them. Unless you’re a multimillionaire you literally can’t afford to sue any of them.
That’s the real flaw with the current US legal system (the civil one at least), individuals can’t afford to bring cases against large corporations. Class action cases can make it possible, but even then the odds are in the favor of the corporations and even if you win nobody actually makes anything off of those besides the lawyers. Typically the lawyers take 50% of the judgement off the top and by the time you divvy up the remaining 50% among all the participants it’s at most a few hundred bucks each if even that.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Does that include protection from false advertising, eh?