Market factor

Litigation, settlements, and product liability

Impact tier: 4 — Stock and sector specific
Category: Corporate actions and stock-specific events
Watch: Court dockets; verdicts
Frequency: event
Effect lasts: months

Litigation, settlements, and product liability. Talc, opioids, and glyphosate each removed tens of billions of market value.

What to watch: Court dockets; verdicts. It arrives event, and the effect typically lasts months.

It sits in tier 4 — Stock and sector specific: Moves one company or one group, not the market. Any factor here becomes tier one if it gets large enough — a bank failure and a pandemic both started as somebody's sector news.

Primary source — pacer.gov ↗

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