What I am wondering about is when some manufacturer, when served with some gold digging lawyer's suit for the stupid of the consumer, just doesn't take a photo of the CEO's hand giving the law firm the finger and mailing it back and ignore it and continue going along as usual. If law suits are bringing down smaller companies, then ignore them. What can they do, call out the national guard?
Summary judgment in absentia , and then depending if it's Federal, or State the U.S. Marshals or Sheriffs Department will come in and shut them down, seize assets, liens filed in court, freeze bank accounts etc.
Physically, for the plant and the land, I suppose you could try to rally the townspeople into some kind of stand off with the .gov over it (how would you conduct shipping & receiving?), but you won't be able to get away with the financial sides of it, unless you somehow could convert all your assets to cash/gold, and then magically escape with it or keep trading with your suppliers and customers on that basis.
Which is a tl/dr version of saying, no chance in hell.
IMO, only tort reform, or a few trial lawyers turning up missing/dead every now and again will fix this. And even those answers suck, because frankly, there's the still legitimate flip side of the issue when a business does royally screw someone over and needs their ass sued off. Although if things keep going in the direction they do, bucking the Democrats and the trial lawyer lobby, and screwing the individual victim, to protect businesses, workers, towns, and the economy... it might just have to happen. Many feel we're already past that point.
This is something that USED to be moderated by culture, and not the law or rules. Just 30 years ago, only the worst ambulance chaser would take such a case, and the Judge/jury would laugh them out of court. Any reputable lawyer would decline such a case of terminal dumbassery with varying degrees of politeness, and it was a natural check and balance on the system. Now Voir dire and Judge/jury shopping is practically a "science".