The Pain Brokers - Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Category: Adults, Crime, Documentary, Education
Language: English
Keywords: Crime Education Political True Crime

Written by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

“Burch is the Jane Goodall of complex litigation. . . . For an expert in such an unlikable form of litigation, Burch is remarkably likable.

She is quick to answer questions and quick-witted as well, a purveyor of analogies and metaphors to explicate arcane legal concepts and a walking archive of legal minutiae going back to the origins of product-liability law—the kind of professor a student hopes to find. . . . .

Burch’s book cannot make this right, but it at least provides an account far more accessible and comprehensible than any case record, and no less appalling.”
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker

Selling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady doctors, and profit-hungry lawyers who turned fears surrounding a faulty medical device affecting millions of women into a goldmine.

For decades, late-night television has blared a familiar refrain: If you or a loved one has been injured by X product…