A just-released report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows that questionable slip-and-fall claims rose by 12% from 2010 through 2011, and not coincidentally many past and present Judicial Hellholes are where most of these bogus, bottom-feeding lawsuits are filed . . . → Read More: With Hellholes Leading the Way, Bogus Slip-and-Fall Claims Rise Nationwide
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May 9th, 2012
 Comments are closed  Judicial Hellholes  California, Chicago, Florida, Illinois, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, New York City, Philadelphia, slip-and-falls, Texas April 18th, 2012
The joke was on low-brow bigmouth Howard Stern Monday when a New York judge dismissed his outrageously ungrateful lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio . . . → Read More: Ungratefully Litigious Has-Been Howard Stern Loses Lawsuit against Sirius XM Radio April 10th, 2012
According to 2011 data, the six states with the highest average payouts for medical liability lawsuits are all home to current or recently named Judicial Hellholes. Go figure . . . → Read More: Once & Future ‘Judicial Hellholes’ Dominate New List of States with Highest Medical Lawsuit Payouts March 27th, 2012
ATRA is calling upon New York State to order an “older driver” reevaluation for the 83-year-old plaintiff who’s filed a $1 million lawsuit against Apple after she blindly walked into a glass wall at one of its stores . . . → Read More: ATRA Calls on New York to Reevaluate Driving Skills of Elderly Plaintiff Who Walked into Wall Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Apple store, Barbara Fiala, Evelyn Paswall, New York, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles March 15th, 2012
Judicial Hellholes California, Florida, New York and West Virginia were home to some of the most absurdly outsized (and costly to us all) medical liability verdicts since 2010. . . . → Read More: Judicial Hellholes Spurring Costly Trend toward More Giant-Sized Medical Liability Awards Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, Medical Liability, New York, South Florida, West Virginia March 1st, 2012
On February 29, 2012, three New York attorneys were among 36 people charged in a massive scheme to defraud insurers of more than $279 million through abuse of the state’s no-fault auto insurance law. . . . → Read More: Three New York Lawyers Charged in Major Insurance Scheme February 28th, 2012
Though judges in the infamous Judicial Hellhole of Madison County, Illinois have allowed supporters of the troubled organic farming industry to perpetuate a meritless class action against the makers of a safe and widely used weed killer for eight long years, a no-nonsense federal judge in New York was not as patient . . . → Read More: Food Eaters 1, Uncompetitive Organics Industry 0 Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light atrazine, Madison County, Monsanto, New York, patents February 24th, 2012
New York’s highest court this week reasonably sided with third-party defendants that had been parasitically targeted with the state’s runaway “scaffold law” . . . → Read More: ‘Sue York’ High Court Knocks ‘Scaffold Law’ Parasites down a Peg September 23rd, 2011
In a cry for help that will almost certainly be ignored by Albany lawmakers who are wholly owned by the plaintiffs’ bar, New York City corporation counsel Michael Cardozo yesterday called for tort reform . . . → Read More: ‘Sue’ York City’s Corporation Counsel Calls for Tort Reform Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Medical Liability, Michael Cardozo, New York, New York City, pain and suffering, Sheldon Silver September 14th, 2011
The latest news out of once-and-future judicial hellhole New York, aka “Sue York,” can be described as good, bad and ugly . . . → Read More: New York: Good, Bad & Ugly Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes, Points of Light Anthony Weiner, Buffalo News, Gawker, Martin Kessman, Medical Liability, New York, New York Post, Obesity Lawsuits July 22nd, 2011
A recent New York Times piece rightly blames today’s “boring” playgrounds on personal injury lawyers and their parasitic, opportunistic lawsuits that have, during the past few decades, managed to take most of the challenge and practically all of the fun out of jungle gyms and slides . . . → Read More: Ten-Foot Jungle Gyms and the Risks of Life May 27th, 2011
Having defeated Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s modest medical liability reform proposals — including a $250,000 limit on noneconomic damages — earlier this year, New York’s trial lawyer-dominated legislature in Albany is now trying to take the already high-liability state’s law in the opposite direction . . . → Read More: Personal Injury Lawyers Love New York Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes Andrew Cuomo, Medical Liability, New York, Rory Lancman, Sheldon Silver May 25th, 2011
For those who keep an eye on the parasitic personal injury bar, it comes as no surprise that the kings and queens of slip-and-fall will gather this July 9-13 for their annual convention in New York City, aka “Sue” York City . . . → Read More: Kings & Queens of Slip-and-Fall Take Manhattan May 6th, 2011
No one will be surprised to learn that four states notorious for their Judicial Hellholes and Watch List jurisdictions — California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey — have been ranked by corporate CEOs as the worst in the nation for doing business . . . → Read More: Four ‘Judicial Hellholes’ States Ranked as Worst for Business Comments are closed Judicial Hellholes California, class-action, Cook County, Illinois, Madison County, McLean County, New Jersey, New York, St. Clair County February 18th, 2011
As reported by the New York Daily News, a New Jersey woman who tried to perpetrate a coupon con on a department store has conspired with a personal injury lawyer relative of hers in Queens, N.Y., to gin up a class action because, she alleges, she’s owed 80 cents. . . . → Read More: ‘Sue Jersey’ and ‘Sue York,’ Hellholes Together February 10th, 2011
Tucked in among various belt-tightening job cuts and agency consolidations in the governor’s budget is the proposed creation of a new Department of Financial Regulation, controlled by a governor-appointed superintendent with ominously broad powers to promulgate new regulations and level lawsuits relating to banking, insurance and consumer protection. . . . → Read More: ATRA, NY Ally Take Aim at Gov. Cuomo’s Proposal for More Lawsuits January 31st, 2011
In a weekend opinion piece in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, ATRA director of communications Darren McKinney said New York lawmakers must choose between honest, hardworking businessmen and women, or the parasitic slip-and-fall racketeers who are bleeding the state’s economy dry . . . → Read More: New York Lawmakers Too Cozy with ‘Slip-and-Fall Racketeers’ January 27th, 2011
As doctors and businesses, fearing meritless lawsuits, continue to leave the hellholish environs of New York state, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City (aka “Sue York”), is urging members of the state bar association to please, please, please support reasonable tort reform measures, according to the New York Law Journal . . . → Read More: Mayor Bloomberg Asks NY State Bar to Support Tort Reform (Good Luck with That, Mr. Mayor) January 24th, 2011
Taking aim at lawsuit loan industry lobbyists and investors now pushing to have their pernicious and parasitic racket legalized in several states, which, in some cases, are home to Judicial Hellholes, ATRA scored a hit with a letter to the editor published in the New York Times . . . → Read More: Lawsuit Loan Industry Lobbies for Legalization in ‘Hellholes’ and Beyond |
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