Growing up on a farm in southwest Wisconsin in the 1960s, plaintiffs’ lawyer Lynn Laufenberg said it was common for farmers to be missing fingers and even limbs, and take it as a badge of honor.

Farm machinery had few safety features, he says, “and it was pounded in your head that farming is dangerous, and it’s your own damn fault if you get hurt.” But it was apparent to Laufenberg that it didn’t have to be that way, although trying product liability cases in rural counties was difficult because of that philosophy.

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