After recently asking his political supporters to help him block pending state legislation that would cramp his pay-to-play style, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has stepped in it real good with his latest closed-door hiring of outside counsel, according to Magnolia State media folk
UncategorizedIn a previous Hellholes post, Will Concussion Lawsuits Sack the NFL, we discussed the potential impact that concussion lawsuits may have on the NFL. On March 23, 2012, former Washington Redskins quarterback Mark Rypien became the lead plaintiff in the latest class-action lawsuit against the League.
UncategorizedIn recent weeks, US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) has taken California legislators to task and urged them to address the excessive amount of “predatory” disability lawsuits that are plaguing the state.
UncategorizedA federal judge in Washington State has rebuked plaintiffs’ attorneys in a securities class action for submitting wildly inflated fees and expenses for reimbursement during the settlement process
UncategorizedTwo sports-minded economists have recently considered the potentially devastating impact that the growing wave of concussion lawsuits could have on the National Footbal League
UncategorizedA new study to be issued Thursday by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicates that 1 of every 4 tests ordered by its members is medically unnnecessary but performed nonetheless to limit the potential for lawsuits down the road
UncategorizedSticking up for personal injury lawyers and determined to turn his state into the “Land of 10,000 Lawsuits,” Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton today vetoed a commonsense package of tort reforms
UncategorizedState and local economies continue to struggle with slow growth and high unemployment and, not coincidentally, some of those struggling
UncategorizedATRA’s allies at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy have published their latest edition of Trial Lawyers, Inc., this time examining the increasingly troubling relationships between many state attorneys general and their personal injury lawyer political patrons
UncategorizedA long awaited government report on the secretive workings of asbestos trust funds says, among other things, “the possibility exists that a claimant could file the same medical evidence and altered work histories with different trusts” and thus fraudulently seek to collect from multiple trusts.
UncategorizedAmerican Tort Reform Association communications director Darren McKinney fired up a comment to an online UPI story he sees as too sympathetic to trial lawyers and class actions
UncategorizedLocal TV new cameras recently caught a Los Angeles area serial plaintiff out for his daily hike, even though the scores of Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits he’s filed against small businesses there claim he’s disabled by “end-stage emphysema” and largely confined to a wheelchair
UncategorizedIf anyone ever doubted that former tort kingpin Dickie Scruggs, now serving federal prison time for the attempted bribery of a judge, was a much emulated role model for up and coming ambulance chasers, this Associated Press story published by Bloomberg/Businessweek should end all such doubt
UncategorizedDoug Alexander of the Partnership for Commonsense Justice in Kentucky authored an excellent op-ed piece published in today’s edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader
UncategorizedAs the personal injury lawyers always tell us, they’re all fine, upstanding citizens, sticking up for the little guy and the rule of law — except when they don’t. Read the latest rags-to-riches-to-shame story
UncategorizedWall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel today takes former comic and now comically phony U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to task for his shameless exploitation of rape allegations as a means to promote anti-arbitration legislation that his personal injury bar pals are eager to have enacted.
UncategorizedA recent New York Times piece rightly blames today’s “boring” playgrounds on personal injury lawyers and their parasitic, opportunistic lawsuits that have, during the past few decades, managed to take most of the challenge and practically all of the fun out of jungle gyms and slides
UncategorizedA new anti-lawsuit abuse film, “InJustice,” by award-winning filmmaker Brian Kelly, will premier on the ReelzChannel July 11 at 10:oo p.m. and air eight additional times throughout the balance of the year. You can view a trailer at
UncategorizedMiami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin saved tort reformers some time by writing a scathing review of “Hot Coffee,” the latest trial lawyer propaganda film
UncategorizedFormer presidential candidate, vice-presidential nominee, U.S. senator and personal injury lawyer John Edwards was indicted today, reports the Washington Post, and tort reformers everywhere will, if they’re candid, admit to being pleased
UncategorizedA new study reported by the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that nursing homes providing excellent care are nearly as likely to be sued as those providing lesser care, putting the lie to personal injury lawyers’ long-time claim that their lawsuits work to improve care, not just their personal fortunes
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