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Vancouver Columbian:
Trial lawyers’ victories cost taxpayers The Vancouver Columbian newspaper rightly points out the financial burden placed on taxpayers thanks to the legislative agenda of the trial lawyers. The newspaper shines a bright light on two areas of liability where “Washington taxpayers are taken for a ride by trial lawyers.” The article discusses the unfairness of joint and several liability and failure of Washington to adopt a seatbelt defense law. Tracking the trial lawyers
Tort reform advocates, such as the LRC, face well-funded opposition from trial lawyers. In fact, there are 10 trial lawyer political action committees (PAC). Each PAC is capable of raising substantial amounts of money and these groups are not shy about wielding their political clout in Olympia. In fact, over the past six years the trial lawyers, through their PACs, upped their political spending by more than 200 percent. |
‘Sinner’ rank for Washington tort system
Washington ranks as a sinner in Pacific Research Institute’s recently released study on the legal climates of all 50 states. The report, U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Study, takes a look at tort costs and tort laws. (See state rankings.) Washington figures in multi-state effort
to roll back tort reform Washington is one of several states highlighted in a recent white paper detailing the multi-state effort of personal-injury lawyers to roll back recent tort reform. |
AG McKenna:
No use proposing tort reforms legislature won’t take seriously In a recent LegalNewsLine interview, Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said out-of-line tort laws cost taxpayers millions. Because the legislature and the governor rejected reforms he proposed in 2006, McKenna does not plan to introduce further tort reform without indications the governor and key legislators will take such action seriously.
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