Protecting consumers from a legal system rigged against them.
PACT is a national nonprofit exposing how predatory billboard personal-injury lawyers exploit accident victims and drive up the cost of living for every American household.
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Press coverage, PACT original videos, and reform updates that put the issue in focus.
No one deserves to be victimized by personal-injury attorneys who exploit loopholes in an unregulated system that drives up costs for everyone. We’re committed to a legal system that protects rather than exploits, because consumers deserve a justice system they can trust.
Two PACT projects, built for the people the system exploits.
Standalone platforms — practical guidance for the moment after a crash, and a place for victims to put their own story on the record.
Before You Call That Lawyer
Practical guidance for victims on navigating the immediate aftermath of an accident without falling prey to settlement mills.
Your Injury Story
First-hand accounts from consumers whose lives were complicated by aggressive legal marketing and predatory contracts.
The cost of an unregulated system.
Annual per-household cost
of America's broken U.S. legal system, paid by every family.
Source: Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), 11/24
Total cost to the U.S. economy
of America's broken legal system in 2022 — 2.1% of total GDP.
Source: Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), 11/24
Billboard-lawyer ad spend
spent in 2023 on 26 million+ TV, radio, print, and billboard ads across the U.S.
Source: American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), 3/24
Where lawsuit abuse is winning, and where consumers are fighting back.
These are the states where the fight is most active — proven reform wins, and documented fraud rings driving up costs for everyone else. Click a state for the story.
States delivering measurable savings after enacting meaningful tort, venue, or legal-advertising reforms.
States with documented legal-fraud rings, organized staged-crash conspiracies, or entrenched lawsuit abuse.
States where reform activity has not yet reached national attention, though efforts are advancing in many.
The costs do not stop with the lawsuit.
PACT tracks the fallout where consumers actually feel it: higher premiums, aggressive ad saturation, pressure on family budgets, and the everyday expenses that absorb the cost of lawsuit abuse.
Latest dispatches
Criminals Shouldn’t Profit By Turning Our Highways Into Crime Scenes
PACT Executive Director Lauren Zelt argues in the Tampa Bay Times that staged-crash rings have turned Florida highways into crime scenes — and that the Staged Accident Fraud Prevention Act would stop fraudsters and the lawyers who profit from them from collecting on crashes they caused.
ICYMI: Criminals Shouldn’t Profit By Turning Our Highways Into Crime Scenes – Tampa Bay Times
PACT Executive Director Lauren Zelt published an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times calling on Congress to swiftly pass the Staged Accident Fraud Prevention Act, which would establish federal criminal penalties for knowingly staging crashes involving commercial motor vehicles.
Pennsylvania's Hidden Inflation Problem Has a Name: Lawsuit Abuse
A quieter, less visible force is making the Keystone State more expensive, and it starts not at the checkout counter but in the courtroom.
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