Ann Carlson on MSNBC: How the opioid ruling could help sue big oil companies

“Oil companies are fighting tooth and nail to try to get every one of these cases dismissed. One reason is they don’t want to pay the money. A second reason is they don’t want their executives having to testify about what they knew, when they knew it, and what they did about it. As oil companies were funding these campaigns of disinformation, they spent their own resources to fortify their own assets against what they knew was going to happen.”