>>Johns Manville, etc, under pressure from the US Govt. coughed up (bad metaphor) billions- their entire net worth in fact- to funds that are still paying victims.
Have you seen anything like that for Celebrex or cortisone?
Try Thalidomide. Now that was a scandal- actually the manufacturing company didn't even apologize until 2012. You're right: the German manufacturer withdrew and hunkered down and paid comparatively little compensation. Ironically it has a use today in some forms of cancer.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
