The consumer group Public Citizen says that medical malpractice payments in 2011 were at a record low and have fallen for eight straight years. The groups says this data shows that malpractice payments are not to blame for the rising …
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that prohibits workers from collecting damages in employment discrimination cases. The legislation eliminates compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association …
Democrats in the Missouri Senate say a bill revising workplace discrimination laws would make it harder for people to prove the claim against employers. Senate Bill 592 would require workers who fight firings or other adverse decisions to prove in …
After losing a baby because of an incompetent cervix, Patricia Votre thought she was well prepared when she got pregnant again. She made arrangements with her doctors to consult with high-risk pregnancy experts from Yale University and to have the …
The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) recently released its annual report on “judicial hellholes.” It’s a list of jurisdictions that ATRA sees as having unfair, out-of-balance civil justice systems that attract plaintiffs from across the country. But there are many …
The City of Brotherly Love isn’t so lovely when it comes to the civil justice system, at least according to a national tort reform advocacy group. The Washington, D.C.-based American Tort Reform Association is out with its annual “judicial hellholes” …
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to limit attorneys’ fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute. The measure, part of Walker’s special legislative session on jobs, requires judges to …
Courthouse officials across Oklahoma have reported a surge in civil cases being filed ahead of a law that took effect Nov. 1 that caps the amount of damages plaintiffs in bodily injury lawsuits can collect for pain and suffering. The …
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s latest plan to kick trial lawyers out of his state may not send them packing after all. The so-called “loser pays” law that Perry has touted as he seeks the Republican nomination for U.S. president will …
Victims of North Carolina doctors guilty of medical malpractice will be limited to $500,000 what they can collect for pain, suffering and lost body parts under legislation the state House passed into law over a veto by Gov. Beverly Perdue. …
