I read it! But then I always do.

Unless I'm mistaken and something very big has happened that hasn't made the news and the medical-legal community where I live, people can still sue drug companies for injuries as a result of harmful drugs. Lawyers are still as active as ever in soliciting those clients, and new lawsuits are being filed daily. (In my county, two were filed this very week.) Big pharma has too much money not to continue tempting plaintiffs' attorneys and class-action suits all over the country.

What's changed is that there are now some very set limits as to how much damages (money) plaintiffs can recover as a result of said injuries. Compensatory and punitive damages have caps, in other words, and lots of people believe them to be very low caps. The legislature OKed these caps and signed the tort reform bill into law, responding, most of us believe, to pressure from the rich-and-growing-richer pharmaceutical companies. The American Trial Lawyers Association fought hard against that legislation.