By Breck Dumas Full article in Fox Business The APCIA says the American household pays more than a $4,200 “tort tax” due to unnecessary and abusive litigation across the country that raises the costs of products and services like groceries and gas. One is jury anchoring, where lawyers attempt to influence juries by throwing out…

By Tom McGrath Full article in Philadelphia Magazine Billboards, alas, are just one way that personal injury attorneys — that segment of the bar that traffics in everything from car crashes and workers’ compensation claims to medical malpractice suits and product liability litigation — have been hustling to get our attention in recent years. According…

Full article in Atlanta Journal Constitution As Gov. Brian Kemp prepares to unveil specifics of his long-promised plan to overhaul Georgia litigation rules, the Republican-backed effort to curb big jury awards and limit lawsuits is getting some timely backup. A group called Protecting American Consumers Together said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $1…

Mass tort litigation too often fails to fairly compensate victims. Rather, the most common outcome of these cases is that it forces productive businesses to waste time and money defending themselves against claims that typically lack merit. The capital that mass torts extract from the U.S. economy is making the United States a less prosperous…

American Transit Insurance Co. liked to put on a show. When ride-sharing companies were capturing bigger slices of the New York market, Uber executives were given box seats costing thousands of dollars to watch NBA games at Barclays Center. A few years prior, ATIC’s 40th anniversary celebration at the New York Athletic Club featured remarks by…

A Delaware judge’s ruling that plaintiff attorneys in a case against Elon Musk were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees has prompted renewed calls for tort reform on social media and from a legal expert who spoke to Fox News Digital.  Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick ruled earlier this month that Musk is not…

Three women are facing charges after an investigation uncovered a scheme involving staged car accidents and fraudulent medical claims, according to Miami-Dade police. On Monday, detectives executed a search warrant at Wise Care Corp., a clinic in Hialeah, following months of surveillance taking the clinic’s owner, a therapist and a receptionist into custody.   Those women were…

Six years ago, a single Tesla shareholder—with just nine shares to his name—sued the electric vehicle company, arguing that CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package was unfair. The shareholder’s lawyers, in turn, saw a jackpot for themselves in the making. Last week, a Delaware judge sided with this lone shareholder, despite 72 percent of Tesla shareholders’ previously voting…

Eight people and two law firms have been charged in what authorities say was more than a decade-long scheme of staging vehicle crashes in the New Orleans area and then submitting fraudulent insurance claims, leading to what prosecutors allege was the murder of one person to cover it up.