US culture, increasingly so... "Who has money ? Ok, what can we come up with that's even vaguely plausible about them to get them to cough up some of that lovely money they have ?"
Unless it's a slam-dunk, companies don't want to go to court, it's too much of a lottery for them and their over-priced lawyers. So they'll settle, and the principal claimant and their lawyers will make a lot, and everyone who climbs on that bandwagon will make peanuts.
US culture, increasingly so... "Who has money ? Ok, what can we come up with that's even vaguely plausible about them to get them to cough up some of that lovely money they have ?"
Unless it's a slam-dunk, companies don't want to go to court, it's too much of a lottery for them and their over-priced lawyers. So they'll settle, and the principal claimant and their lawyers will make a lot, and everyone who climbs on that bandwagon will make peanuts.
[sigh]