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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Many elected officials are oblivious to the restrictions on health care access and the overall damage to the economy caused by rampant abuse of the legal system, Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, told the Washington Legal Foundation in a recent interview.
“Too often, profound problems in the civil justice system are dismissed as matters only for lawyers and judges,” Joyce said. “The reality is that the worst abuses in litigation are a problem for all.”
The interview, conducted on Jan. 11, focused on the release in December of ATRA’s annual “Judicial Hellholes” report, which ranks the nation’s courts, local and state governments in their bias towards plaintiffs in civil actions.
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Legislation aimed at making attorney advertising in Louisiana more transparent and less susceptible to misleading claims took effect this month, but tort reform advocates are now waiting for the state Supreme Court to embrace the new rules.
Some trial attorneys who pay for billboard ads to get more clients are also waiting for the high court to chime in before they change the way they do business, despite the bill’s warnings that the current legal ad environment can mislead consumers.
Senate Bill 115, authored by State Sen. Patrick Connick (R-Marrero) and signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards last year, took effect Jan. 1. The measure, which applies to legal advertisements in all formats, calls on ads that mention a monetary settlement agreement or a jury damages verdict to account for all attorney fees that benefit those behind the ads.
Illinois lawmakers spent nearly all of 2020 at home, choosing to let Gov. J.B. Pritzker navigate the COVID-19 pandemic without their guidance and seeing only a handful of new
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” 3360 will end these maneuvers and more fully and fairly compensate victims for the harm they suffer” … and also give the lawyers a bigger paycheck too, but I’m sure that has absolutely no impact on their desire for the bill to pass. Nope, over there in the ITLA they’re all saints doing God’s work helping their fellow man, yes sir.
Starting the clock on interest before the defendants have any reason to pay up is absurd. It’s punishing defendants for utilizing their rights to take cases to court. And it’s not just going to be huge companies or employers who are affected by this. I’m generally on the side saying all corporations are evil, but come on now.