After 20-year-old Amazon employee dies at work, Indiana issues $7,000 fine

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  1. I love it when plaintiff attorneys act like large financial settlements in relation to accidental deaths lead to a safer world. We had massive tobacco settlements, but record number of people still suffer from the products deadly consequences every year. The only real result is the attorney’s profit from the suffering of common people.

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