Detailed critique of a new Georgia proposal that would do away with the tort system in medical malpractice cases, replacing it with a biased administrative structure.
Examines how some government food safety functions have been privatized, leading to foodborne illness outbreaks, and how civil lawsuits can step in to help where government has failed.
The first definitive expose of 35 years of manufactured insurance crises. So far there have been three. We document how this industry is now creating a fourth.
Finds that news coverage of civil jury verdicts fails to provide an accurate picture of the civil justice system and that certain new media trends are making the situation worse.
This report calls the bluff on those claiming that doctors routinely order unnecessary tests or procedures for the purpose of “lawsuit avoidance,” so-called “defensive medicine.”
This report examines the troubling activism by the current U.S. Supreme Court to restrict litigation against reckless corporations in the areas of preemption (i.e., immunity), punitive damages, judicial recusal,…
Everyone should have the right to take action in court when their own health and the welfare of their own communities are at stake, and polluters should be held accountable for the harm they cause to ordinary people.
Examines current administrative compensation schemes and alternative tribunals and exposes the important ways health courts would differ from them. These differences will make the health courts unconstitutional under…
This report shows how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides substantial financial and strategic assistance to local front groups to influence state elections, including funding major media buys to smear local candidates.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.
Workers’ compensation programs throughout the country have been devastating for injured workers, leaving them to contend with an adversarial bureaucracy and inadequate benefits that render many destitute.