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Business Quietly Applauds Sunstein Appointment

Posted in Consumer, Consumer Law, Government, Politics, Products Liability, Tort, Trial lawyer, Workplace, tagged , , , on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Cass Sunstein has been appointed to run the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews major federal rules. While business has quietly applauded this move, liberals are worrying that Sunstein will not sufficiently support the rescinding of pro-business regulations enacted by the Bush administration or champion new ones pertaining to health and safety.
Sunstein, a prolific author and public intellectual, was [...]

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Billion-Dollar Verdicts on the Decline

Posted in Consumer Law, Courts, Insurance Law, Media, Miscellaneous, Politics, Tort, Trial lawyer, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bloomberg. com reports that billion dollar verdicts are vanishing from U.S. courtrooms. In 2008 no such verdict was rendered by a jury, and there was only one in 2007. But in the previous 14 years, there were a total of 26 billion-dollar verdicts.
One reason for this is that the Supreme Court and lower appeals courts have limited [...]

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The American Rule, Can This Be Sacrificed to Insurance Company Profits?

Posted in Constitution, Courts, Miscellaneous, Trial lawyer, tagged , , , , on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

TortsProfBlog has a link to a WSJ article by Dan Slater about whether the U.S. should keep to the “American” rule in litigation mandating that each side pays its own costs or if we should switch to a loser-pays rule such as exists in the U.K.
The reaction of the plaintiffs’ bar is that adopting the “English” rule [...]

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Faces of Lawsuit Abuse: A Response

Posted in Consumer Law, Insurance, Media, Miscellaneous, Politics, Tort, Trial lawyer, tagged , , on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A few days ago, I posted a video that was recently released by the Chamber of Commerce entitled “Faces of Lawsuit Abuse” showing images of those who have supposedly suffered severe hardship as a result of so-called frivolous lawsuits.
The implication was of bankrupted individuals and ruined small businesses because of greedy trial lawyers. Of course, it was all [...]

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The Actual Chamber of Commerce Ad

Posted in Consumer, Courts, Politics, Tort, Trial lawyer, tagged , , , on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is the advertisement by the Chamber of Commerce that I made reference to in a recent post. Hmm… after further reflection, I think the word propaganda better describes it than does advertisement.
The piece obviously seeks to have a psychological effect on viewers seeing that it plays gripping music while a voiceover claims that lawsuits [...]

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Chamber of Commerce Is At It Again

Posted in Consumer, Consumer Law, Courts, Miscellaneous, Politics, Tort, Trial lawyer, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Chamber of Commerce has begun a campaign highlighting what it claims are the abundance of frivolous lawsuits filed in the courts that are supposedly plaguing small businesses.
Whenever a politician or interest group for business tries to limit the rights of ordinary citizens to bring a lawsuit, it’s commonly done in the name of small business. [...]

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