What is a mass tort?!

Most people think big lawsuits are “class actions.”

But lawyers know the real money — and the real danger — are in mass torts.

Thousands of individual victims. One powerful court.Billions at stake. In The Pain Brokers (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 13, 2026), I pull back the curtain on how a few lawyers turned mass injury into mass profit — and what it means for the rest of us.

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