in march of 2022, gun manufacturer remington agreed to pay $73 million to kill a lawsuit over the company’s marketing of military-style weapons to the general public – specifically the bushmaster ar-15 - used by a gunman to kill children at the sandy hook elementary school in 2012.

an average of just 2% of tort cases currently go to trial. most companies settle to avoid negative publicity.

dr. john brinkley of the u.s. replaced the testicles of 16,000 men with goat testicles. he believed that it would cure impotence. it didn't. he ran for governor of kansas (of course) twice and nearly won, and amassed a fortune of millions of dollars, but died penniless due to malpractice and wrongful death lawsuits.

in 2009, a man sued pepsi because he said that he found a dead mouse in a can of mountain dew. pepsi said that was impossible, because mountain dew is acidic enough to dissolve a dead mouse. they won the case.