Year: 2024-2025

South Carolina’s asbestos environment first landed on the Judicial Hellholes® list in 2020. Since that time, the trial judge who

Lawsuit abuse in the City of Brotherly Love has reached a fever pitch with nuclear verdicts becoming the norm and

After appearing in the Judicial Hellholes® report for the first time last year, it appears the Michigan Supreme Court is

Judges in St. Louis issue plaintiff-friendly rulings and embrace junk science, signaling to plaintiffs’ lawyers across the country, and now

Georgia’s civil justice system is plagued by skyrocketing nuclear verdicts®, inflated awards for medical costs, expansive premises liability, and laws

A “fraudemic” hit the Big Apple in 2024. Some of the worst examples of lawsuit abuse came to light in

Cook County is home to a disproportionate amount of the state’s litigation and nuclear verdicts®. No-injury litigation, including claims filed

King County, Washington makes its first ever appearance on the Judicial Hellholes® list thanks to judges’ proclivity for unfair group

California is the trial bar’s laboratory. It’s where they go to pursue innovative new theories of liability and push the

Nuclear verdicts® plague the state’s civil justice system, bringing it in line with other Judicial Hellholes®. This year, an auto