If significant tort reform becomes reality, litigation and trial skills, not just case volume, will become the currency of survival. The failure of SB 30 and, to a lesser extent SB 39, in 2025 has ...
Business activity generates tax revenue, and the business activity losses due to excessive tort costs reduce receipts to the ...
Since 2022, the Georgia General Assembly has passed several pieces of legislation providing significant impacts for civil litigation and litigants in the State’s courts. Together, the new laws ...
There was a time when civil-defense lawyers in Texas advocated for tort reform because of the benefit to their clients. But as the Texas Legislature considers once again altering the civil justice ...
The most expensive state House primaries this cycle were proxy wars over issues including casinos, tort reform and a lingering battle between establishment Republicans and more hardline conservatives.
Washington state has seen a massive increase in tort claim payouts, exceeding half a billion dollars in the 2024-25 fiscal ...
Florida tort-reform supporters pressed their message about the economic costs of excessive litigation during Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week while conceding that the passage of additional reforms to ...
A tort reform push was dramatically pared back in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, leaving behind narrow public nuisance language and a proposed summer study of Indiana’s civil litigation ...
Kentucky’s Constitution guarantees its citizens access to the courts when they are harmed. The legislature can’t limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death or for injuries or ...