Monday, January 2, 2012

California Named a Judicial Hellhole… Again

By Tom Scott
CapoliticalReview.com


The American Tort Reform Foundation has released its annual Judicial Hellholes Report and California has claimed the #2 ranking on the report between Philadelphia and West Virginia. Our state certainly has been racking up the distinctions this year.

Last year we were also ranked #2 due to consumer class actions, extortionate disability access claims against small business, and expansive liability. Two cases stood out last year: a $208.8 million verdict for a single asbestos claimant in Los Angeles and a $677 million class action verdict leveled by a Humboldt County court against a nursing home provider in a case where not a single person had been injured.

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