'When legal commerce generates results we don't like, it's worth asking who designed the marketplace, and who sets the rules. Those folks weren't defendants in this trial.' | By Ford Vox, a physician specializing in rehabilitation medicine, for CNNOpinion
Ford Vox is a physician specializing in rehabilitation medicine. He is also a journalist whose work ranges from investigations to analysis, including his frequent contributions to CNN Opinion. Follow him on Twitter @FordVox. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author's own. View more opinion at CNN.
If this week's $572 million opioid liability verdict in Oklahoma is any indication of a trend to come, the nation's automakers should be worried. Johnson & Johnson just got retroactively punished for the consequences of conducting its business legally according to the regulations of the time. When legal commerce generates results we don't like, it's worth asking who designed the marketplace, and who sets the rules. Those folks weren't defendants in this trial.
Automakers are well aware that fossil fuel emissions are contributing to climate change. For that matter, the auto company is aware tens of thousands of people have died in accidents involving its vehicles, and that deaths will continue so long as their products keep rolling off the assembly line.
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