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A new independent-expenditure group, Protecting American Consumers Together, is expanding its operations into California to target what it calls “predatory personal injury practices” as it advocates for tort reform in Sacramento.

The group told Playbook it’s pouring at least $1 million into a cheeky ad campaign in California, which is designed to mock highway billboard ads typical of the personal-injury legal industry. For example, one ad states, “Have you been victimized by a personal injury attorney?”

PACT, which recently urged Georgia lawmakers to pass a bill that would limit civil lawsuits, has previously disclosed that its funders include Uber and Waffle House Inc.