{"id":64372,"date":"2018-06-27T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64372"},"modified":"2018-06-27T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:08:13","slug":"hedge-funds-look-to-profit-from-personal-injury-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/hedge-funds-look-to-profit-from-personal-injury-suits.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Look to Profit From Personal-Injury Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) Hedges and private-equity firms are deepening their involvement in big-ticket personal-injury lawsuits against drug companies and medical device manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Investment firms are lending money to law firms that bring so-called mass torts and providing cash advances to plaintiffs involved in such litigation. The activity is increasing just as prosecutors and lawmakers intensify their scrutiny of the industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/25\/business\/hedge-funds-mass-torts-litigation-finance.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) Hedges and private-equity firms are deepening their involvement in big-ticket personal-injury lawsuits against drug companies and medical device manufacturers. Investment firms are lending money to law firms that bring so-called mass torts and providing cash advances to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64373,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64372\/revisions\/64373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}