• New Orleans Trial Reveals The Plaintiff Recruitment Scheme Driving Up Your Insurance Bill

    A federal fraud trial in New Orleans, LA has delivered a rare look inside the organized networks that manufacture personal injury lawsuits, and the testimony is damning. A cooperating witness described, under oath, a scheme in which…


  • Kansas Has a Chance to Stop Lawsuit Abuse — But the House Must Act Now

    The Kansas Senate just passed two important bills, SB 462 and SB 463, that aim to rein in excessive litigation costs that are quietly driving up prices for Kansas families. Here’s what they would do: Both bills…


  • New Report: Florida Auto Insurance Rates Continue to Fall Following Legal Reforms

    Florida drivers may soon see more relief on their auto insurance bills. According to a recent announcement from Florida Insurance Commissioner Mike Yaworsky, the state’s five largest auto insurance groups are currently indicating an average 8% rate…


  • Los Angeles’ Lawsuit Costs Are Blowing Past Budget: LA Controller Annual Report

    Los Angeles is facing mounting fiscal pressure as liability payouts continue to surge beyond expectations, according to the city’s FY2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. In the fiscal year for 2025, liability claims totaled $287 million, exceeding the…


  • Why the Operation Sideswipe Trial Matters — and Why Reform Can’t Wait

    This week, a major federal trial began in New Orleans over one of the largest staged-accident fraud schemes in recent history — a case that underscores everything that’s broken in our current system and why meaningful lawsuit…


  • Suffolk County Court Case Puts a Spotlight on Auto Insurance Fraud — and Why Reform Matters Now

    A recent ruling from New York’s Suffolk County Supreme Court offers one of the clearest examples to date of how organized fraud schemes exploit the Empire State’s auto insurance system — and, in doing so, raise premiums…


  • South Carolina Personal Injury Attorney Pleads Guilty in $1.5M Fraud Scheme

    From 2018 to 2024, a now-suspended personal injury attorney allegedly stole $1.5 million from his law firm and clients, according to public records. The Motley Rice litigation attorney pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and…


  • Court Documents: Spinal Fusion on Mentally Ill Man Was Part of a “Legal-Driven Medical Engine”

    In a newly filed New York action New York Marine & General Insurance Company v. Subin, et al., an insurer describes what it calls a “deceitful, collusive” operation built around a “legal-driven medical engine.” At the center…


  • California City Manager: CA Cities Directly Impacted By Rising Costs Associated With Lawsuit Abuse

    Families across the country are struggling with rising living costs that are usually blamed on inflation or housing, but a major and often overlooked driver is lawsuit abuse. Earlier this week, Cotati, CA City Manager Damien O’Bird…


  • Hochul Targets “Runaway Litigation” and Fraud in New York’s Personal-Injury System

    In Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul issued one of her most pointed criticisms of New York’s personal injury and auto fraud system, characterizing it not as individual wrongdoing, but as a systematic network of criminal participants inflating expenses…