Who’s it supposed to be paid by?
It's a neat trick. Lawyers take 600m out of the voters back pocket, hand back 400m, and the people rejoice.
and that's fine, because you're not taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving back $40, they're taking $60 out of everyone's pocket and giving $4000 to the people affected. The point of the lawsuit is to force redistributing wealth to compensate the people affected, not as some sort of money-maker.
Criminal lawsuits should be allowed to go forward.
If the people of Michigan elect clowns to run the state, who cause harm to <some group of people>, the people of Michigan should be responsible for making amends. It doesn't make one whit of difference that the harmed people were, or were not part of Michigan.
This creates an incentive to not elect clowns.
So you're against compensating the victims financially?
>Criminal lawsuits should be allowed to go forward.
You do realize that this judgement doesn't preclude criminal prosecution? The criminal courts and civil courts operate independently.
Life insurance payouts for example can in theory be consistently be larger than premiums.