1MM in any currency doesn't sound like a lot, especially relative to who they're up against...

I’m not saying that the lawsuits are necessarily wrong or bad (though there do seem to be many of dubious merit), just that they don’t accurately reflect the mix of safety and other problems between large and small producers.

They're purchasing lottery tickets that are mostly paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems.

Winning one and losing five is in their favor.

No. The case can be settled out of court. This doesn't necessarily mean lawsuits are misleading or terrible as measures.

I'd like corporations (bodies) to be prosecuted like human bodies, where bad behavior was noted, you got a record, and punishment increased through fines, restrictions all the way to forms of incarceration, and even the death penalty.

Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruption" or "agility" is the only thing that small companies have going for them, but once the monopolist gets large enough they can just buy up any upstarts and keep the market all to themselves forever. This is why you require governments to periodically shake the snowglobe and restore markets to competitiveness... until the monopolist gets big enough that they just buy the government, anyway.

You seem to be assuming chains are good. I prefer the one location restaurant myself, but by definition they will never be the largest chain.

McDonald's might be the largest restaurant chain in Italy but that doesn't really mean much given how many small restaurants the country has with high quality food.