A Wall Street Journal editorial today lifts the rock on VP nominee Joe Biden’s cozy connections with the trial bar and his labors to make his home state of Delaware a wholly-owned subsidiary of the asbestos litigation machine.
The Journal reports that Sen. Biden’s top contributor (over $200,000) is the SimmonsCooper law firm, which pocketed hundreds […]
Ralph Reiland has an interesting piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review highlighting the difficulties and threats small businesses face from overregulation and lawsuit-happy trial lawyers:
Unfortunately, we have a government at every level that’s overloaded with lawmakers who don’t have a clue about the impact on the small business community, on both owners and employees, of their legislation […]
If you think it’s been a bad year for the trial bar, think again. Sure, three of its most esteemed members – Melvyn Weiss, Bill Lerach and Dickie Scruggs – are behind bars for the various abuses they’ve perpetrated on the legal system. But as the Wall Street Journal editorial page makes clear, trial lawyers […]
Lisa Rickard of the Institute for Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a good piece on townhall.com on the $54 million lost pants lawsuit that won’t go away.
There’s probably no more dramatic demonstration of effective tort reform in action than Texas’ constitutional amendment capping non-economic damages (i.e. pain and suffering) to $250,000. Since Texas voters passed Prop. 12 in 2003, the Lone Star State’s largest medical liability carrier has seen the number of lawsuit filings cut in half. Liability insurance, which before […]
A decision last month by the South Carolina Supreme Court threatens to make businesses in the state an even bigger target for enterprising trial attorneys.
Cam Crawford, Executive Director of the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition says the new ruling (Colleton Prep Academy v. Hoover Universal) would allow personal injury lawyers and their plaintiffs to sue […]
Skip Tucker, Executive Director of Alabama Voters Against Lawsuit Abuse, fills in voters about the unholy alliance powerful Alabama trial lawyers and Attorney General Troy King to roll back tort reforms by wresting control of the state Supreme Court from rule-of-law justices.
Here’s the game: File bogus lawsuits against PR-challenged companies like ExxonMobil which everyone knows […]
After 104 years of delivering babies, the maternity unit at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, PA is shutting down, thanks to soaring medical liability insurance costs brought on by an explosion of frivolous lawsuits and jackpot-sized jury awards.
The toll of the medical liability crisis has been staggering on expectant mothers in the Philadelphia area. Since […]
You drink five margaritas; hop on a train in an alcohol-induced stupor; then jump off and wrench your ankle after figuring out you’re on the wrong train. What do you do? You sue! Overlawyered.com has the story.
Fortune magazine’s Roger Parloff takes an in-depth look at the campaign by Mississippi tort king Dickie Scruggs to destroy State Farm with a barrage of Hurricane Katrina-related lawsuits and efforts by State Farm to fight back against Scruggs’ underhanded tactics. (Hat tip: Y’All Politics)
“State Farm now alleges that Scruggs manufactured portions of his case against […]
