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In The News
State's Bad Tort System Hurts Business, The Star-Ledger, 5/4/08
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform releases the 2008 "Lawsuit Climate Report"
Forbes Magazine: Atlantic County, New Jersey "One of the Worst Places to get Sued in America"
What Other Are Saying
"New Jersey courts are inviting out-of-state plaintiffs to sue New Jersey companies."
- 2007 Judicial Hellhole Report, American Tort Reform Association.
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Recent News
Directorship Magazine and the American Justice Partnership release annual boardroom guide to state litigation climates
NJ Falls to 35th
Read the report here.
Of New Jersey Steven Hantler, the author, writes:
"New Jersey's liability climate continues to deteriorate, and the state ranks next to last for monetary tort losses and medical malpractice losses. PRI's 2008 report also ranks the state next to last in terms of liability climate "output," reflecting the state's longterm pro-plaintiff orientation.
Governor Jon Corzine this year signed a qui tam bill deputizing private attorneys to sue on behalf of the state on Medicaid fraud. On a positive note, he vetoed a bill that would have expanded the types of damages in wrongful death claims to include mental anguish, emotional pain, and loss of companionship.
Aggressive efforts by antireform lawmakers threaten to undo past reforms. There is an activist majority on the state Supreme Court. Attorney General Anne Milgram is neutral to activist."
A Texas Turnaround: The Impact of Lawsuit Reform on Business Activity in the Lone Star State, April 2008
Texas has for years been pointed to as an example of a civil justice reform success story. But a new report by the Perryman Group actually documents the positive economic growth that Texas has experienced as a direct result of the reforms that have been enacted there since 1995.
The report concludes that 8.5% of Texas' economic growth since 1995 is the result of lawsuit reforms. Other gains that they attribute to these reforms include:
- $112.5 billion increase in annual spending
- $51.2 billion increase in annual output - goods and services produced in Texas
- $2.6 billion increase in annual state tax revenue
- $469.9 million in annual benefits from safer products
- $15.2 billion in annual net benefits of enhanced innovation
- 499,000 permanent jobs
- 430,000 additional Texans have health insurance today as a result of the medical liability reforms
There are clear lessons to be learned from this report for New Jersey. Read the complete study here and share it with your colleagues.