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Those two pieces of good news have industry-watchers and politicians saying legislation passed in 2022 and 2023 reforming state tort laws are having the desired effect. ... Florida lawsuits, even ...
October 30, 2023 at 6:00 AM. ... R-St. Petersburg, who was a vocal supporter of tort reform in the Legislature. Pizzo, one of the state’s wealthiest lawmakers with a net worth of $60 million ...
ILR advocates for a number of state and federal policy positions related to civil justice reform. These include policies to provide more transparency in the asbestos bankruptcy trust system, class-action lawsuit reform, spotlighting third-party litigation funding and lawsuit lending, reforms to the False Claims Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, among others.
In 1946, a group of plaintiffs' attorneys involved in workers' compensation litigation founded the National Association of Claimants' Compensation Attorneys (NACCA). As their work broadened beyond workers' compensation, in 1960 the NACCA changed its name to the National Association of Claimants' Counsel of America, and four years later, to the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Advocates of tort reform complain of unconstitutional regulation caused by litigation, and that litigation is used to circumvent the legislative process by achieving regulation that Congress is unwilling or unable to pass. Tort reform is also proposed as one solution to rapidly increasing health care costs in the United States.
In 2022, the Florida Department of Management Services selected global consulting firm KPMG to produce a 20-year master plan for the Florida Department of Corrections. The report, finalized in ...
Proponents of tort reform thus endorse caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice claims as a way to reduce the extent to which physicians practice defensive medicine, the provision of unnecessary medical care in order to avoid potential liability, and would increase access to health care.
Florida takes aim at Target's 2023 Pride collection in a lawsuit over the retailer's DEI initiatives. Dominick Reuter. February 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM. Florida is going after Target in court.