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Strategies & Market Trends : Value Investing
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To: Q. who wrote (8698)10/20/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: Bob Rudd  Read Replies (1) of 78659
 
MO - Litigation risk: I did some research attempting to come up with base data and methods to estimate litigation risk...not specifically cigarette companies [I've long believed they'd get burned in the end], but stuff like shareholder suits that are very common when you buy after a big fall. One distinction that came out was between a known and open ended risk. Known being....we know how many suits there are going to be [like the diet drug case], open ended being more like asbestos or smoking where the suits can just keep on coming as new disease cases are discovered.
One thing I didn't find and would appreciate a point to is base data on shareholder suit success and average settlement. I believe a recent ruling raised the bar that had been substantially lowered around 95.
bob
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