7 News Australia – Law firm launches $6 trillion class action against China for unleashing coronavirus
A law firm in the U.S. is suing the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Berman Law Group wants more than $6 trillion in compensation for the lives lost and economic devastation caused by the global pandemic.
Their class action alleges that China hid the deadliness of COVID-19 from the rest of the world for crucial weeks after the outbreak began.
They claim this allowed the highly contagious virus to spread unimpeded across the globe while China took measures to protect its own citizens.
More than 10,000 people have signed on, including family members of coronavirus victims and frontline healthcare workers.
“China is going to have to be held accountable for what they did,” chief strategist behind the class action, Jeremy Alters said on Sunrise.
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Russell Berman
Russell Berman is a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Business with majors in Finance and Business Law, and a Minor in Real Estate (B.A. December 2000). Mr. Berman received his Juris Doctor in May 2003 from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, five years after graduating from high school. Mr. Berman focuses his practice in the areas of personal injury and personal injury protection claims, and he has successfully litigated and managed thousands of claims, recovering millions of dollars in personal injury protection benefits afforded by Automobile Insurance Policies, Medical Doctors, Doctors of Chiropractic, MRI facilities, Orthopedists, and Licensed Massage Therapists.