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Leave it to the plaintiffs' trial lawyers to add insult to injury. While American businesses and families spent 2009 coping with the effects of a severe recession, the plaintiffs' bar was hard at work bringing a whole new round of outrageous lawsuits on behalf of clients hoping to get rich quick by winning the litigation lottery. To chronicle some of the most egregious lawsuits, the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) introduced its First Annual Most Ridiculous ...