Full story in the California Globe By Aidan Chao Los Angeles is facing a city budget deficit of just under $1 billion, due in large part to the extraordinary volume of liability claims stemming from lawsuits against the city. Los Angeles budgeted $100 million in 2025 for liability claims, but as City Administrator Matthew Szabo shared with…

By Lauren Zelt Full story in DC Journal There’s a loophole in our current tax code that allows for foreign entities to bankroll lawsuits against American businesses, small and large alike. Didn’t know that? You’d be forgiven if so, because a very elite class of investors, including sanctioned Russian Oligarchs, are doing everything possible to preserve…

Full story in Los Angeles Times By Noah Goldberg and Phi Do The amount of money that the city of Los Angeles pays annually for police misconduct, trip and falls, and other lawsuits has ballooned, rising from $64 million a decade ago to $254 million last year and $289 million this fiscal year. The reasons…

On June 17, Bloomberg Law spotlighted the growing influence of outside groups advocating for lawsuit abuse reform. The article features Protecting American Consumers Together (PACT) and its recent momentum across the country.  Highlights of the piece include:  “This administration presents an opportunity for us to get lawsuit abuse reform at the federal level,” said Lauren…

By Diana Novak Jones Full story in Reuters June 11 (Reuters) – Ride-hailing company Uber filed a lawsuit against a Miami law firm and a Miami medical center accusing them of orchestrating a medical and insurance scam that involved staged car collisions. Uber (UBER.N), opens new tab, in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court…

Full story in POLITICO A [501(c)(4)] pushing to target what it calls “predatory personal injury lawyers” is promoting a new internal poll that suggests most Californians are concerned about the costs of excessive litigation. The poll, exclusively shared with Playbook, suggests that 72 percent of registered voters agree that “lawsuit abuse” drives up the price…

By Bob Dorigo Jones Full story in Crain’s Detroit Business I have spent nearly three decades increasing awareness of the high cost of lawsuit abuse and America’s deeply flawed personal injury system. It’s plagued by exploitative practices and bad actors who take advantage of victims while inflating costs for families, consumers, and businesses. Aggressive marketing,…

Full story in Fox News By Rep. Mike Collins Cornelius Garrison was murdered in New Orleans in 2020. He had been cooperating with federal authorities investigating a crash-for-cash insurance fraud scheme. For years, Garrison helped stage car crashes, directing participants to purposefully crash into trucks with the hopes of extracting a settlement from their companies. He would then funnel the passengers…

Full article in Sacramento Business Journal By Julian Cañete Californians are subsidizing a multibillion-dollar industry that’s profiting at their own expense. And many don’t even realize it’s happening. The state allows for excessively large damages to be awarded in personal injury lawsuits, primarily in medical malpractice suits — damages to such great extents that they…

Full story in Florida Politics By Jeff Brandes For decades, Florida’s legal system functioned like that broken stoplight. Lawsuits — many of them questionable at best — flooded the courts. Insurance premiums soared. Businesses passed those costs along to consumers. Families struggled to keep up. It was a quiet crisis, hiding in plain sight. Then…