According to X-Ante, a tort litigation tracker, TV commercials asking people to report alleged injury by Zantac, a heartburn medication, aired more than 45,000 times in the first quarter of 2021.

And, thanks to the unchecked abuses, the direct economic costs of the tort system grew at an annual rate of 6 percent year over year between 2016-2020. This exceeds both the rate of inflation and ...

This isn’t why we have a lower rate for capital gains.

Two forms of class warfare are endless here. Taxation is one; after this session, under the deals cut last week, nothing but a token will remain of the only tax that the state collects on ...

Our broken tort system — which has encouraged a slew of all-too-often meritless medical malpractice lawsuits and the advent of novel funding structures to support increased levels of such ...

Dunwell noted that in 2020 the tort system was responsible for $443 billion of U.S. Gross Domestic Product, or about 2.1% overall. “That really concerns me, as well,” he said. “It ...

Now signed into law and officially in effect, the law “returns Florida’s tort system to fundamental American judicial principles that the most responsible pay for the damages they caused ...

Lawmakers could vote on a package of bills, Senate Bill 68 and Senate Bill 69, that would overhaul Georgia’s tort system as soon as this week. Gov. Brian Kemp, who called tort reform his No. 1 ...

Look at Louisiana’s history of tort reform. The assertion that auto insurance rates will go down has never happened in light of numerous instances where Republican legislatures have “reformed ...

(The Center Square) — In a recent report by the Archbridge Institute, Louisiana ranked last among all 50 states in fostering social mobility, pointing to deep-rooted systemic issues that hinder ...