What Compensation or Damages Can I or My Child Recover in a Social Media Addiction Lawsuit?
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The question of what compensation or damages a family can recover is highly unpredictable. What I can say is that these are not class actions, despite common misconceptions. Many people associate class actions with cases involving small harms spread across a large group—like a gas station charging an ATM fee when it shouldn’t have, resulting in a minor payout to affected customers. In a class action, a few main plaintiffs make decisions on behalf of the entire group. This, however, is a mass tort, meaning each plaintiff has their own claim and makes their own decisions, though certain general issues are resolved collectively. Because these cases are ongoing, it is impossible to estimate potential compensation at this stage. When people ask how much families should be compensated, I often turn the question around: If you have children, how much would you sell three or four years of their life for? How much would you sell their life for? The answer is always the same—there is no amount of money that can truly compensate for what these companies have done.
