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The American Tort Reform Association recently released its list of the worst civil justice climates in the country and Louisiana remains a fixture. The state has continued its losing streak with a ...
Louisiana ranked as the 10th worst state for tort litigation in the American Tort Reform Foundation's annual report. According to the report, trial attorneys have poured $66.3 million into ...
The American Tort Reform Association report cites data from the Perryman Group that showed Washington state residents pay the fourth-highest tort tax in the nation at nearly $2,289 per year.
On October 5, 2022, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) transferred [1] some 66 autism and ADHD lawsuits [2] to Senior District Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York, thus consolidating all such acetominophen birth defect cases in a mass tort. [3] The case specifically concerns the lack of warning ...
Although federal courts often hear tort cases arising out of common law or state statutes, there are relatively few tort claims that arise exclusively as a result of federal law. The most common federal tort claim is the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy for violation of one's civil rights under color of federal or state law, which can be used to sue ...
Proponents of the existing tort system contend that tort reform advocates exaggerate the costs and ignore the benefits of the current tort system. [106] For example, consumer advocates and legal scholars contend that lawsuits encourage corporations to produce safer products, discourage them from selling dangerous products such as asbestos , and ...
(The Center Square) - California was ranked the nation’s fifth-worst “judicial hellhole” this year, improving from its third-place ranking last year by the American Tort Reform Foundation, a ...
(The Center Square) – Cook County is at No. 6 on the Americans for Tort Reform Judicial Hellholes list. ATR has been publishing the annual Judicial Hellholes list for more than 20 years.