Category: Tort Reform

Insurance companies like to play games with innocent injury victims. Don’t fall for their tricks and traps. Here are seven insider secrets insurance adjusters don’t want you to know about. When Insurance companies tell you that their offer is final, they are not telling you the truth. Nearly every adjuster can get additional settlement authority […]

I work in a field that is filled with myths. Myths that there are too many frivolous lawsuits filed; myths that injury victims lie and embellish in order to advance their cases; myths that injury victims are simply looking to get rich when they bring personal injury claims, etc. Many of these myths are created […]

From the Los Angeles Times comes a wonderful piece on tort reform, and how we need to shift our focus to the real facts and statistics, and away from the half-truths that perpetuate tort reform efforts. Here it is: “Every circus needs a sideshow, which must be why every time the issue of rising medical costs gets debated, politicians start clamoring for “tort […]

Attorney John A. Day over at Day on Torts has  new post on his blog about an interesting new article that explores the effects of tort reform around the fifty states. Here is a link to the article and here is the abstract: “This manuscript contains the most detailed, complete and comprehensive legal dataset of tort reforms […]

In recent months there has been much talk about limiting the damages that asbestos victims may recover. This only serves to further insulate culpable wrongdoers from the huge financial exposure they rightfully face. This ultimately results in diminished relief for asbestos victims. The following was provided by the April 2006 edition of the American Trial Lawyers […]

On March 30, Florida took one step closer to enacting legislation that will severely handicap the rights of injury victims. The bill, H.B. 145, now awaiting Governor Jeb Bush’ s approval, will significantly curtail the rights of personal injury victims in Florida to sue multiple defendants for causing their injuries. If the bill becomes law, […]