By American Tort Reform AssociationAUSTIN, TEXAS – The Rio Grande Valley and East Texas are named “Judicial Hellholes” in a just released annual report published by the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA). “Judicial Hellholes” are jurisdictions across the country where the laws are applied in an unfair or unbalanced manner.
“While Texas has long been recognized as a national leader in reining in frivolous lawsuits and championing smart reform, the findings in this latest ATRA report raise concerns for consumers, small business owners and all Texans who care about a civil justice system based on common sense and fairness,” said Jennifer Harris, a spokesperson for Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse (TALA).
In East Texas, ATRA has for a number of years noted the high number of patent lawsuits filed in federal court. This year, the Judicial Hellhole report highlighted an egregious case involving a record-setting $663 million and questionable judgment against a maker of highway guardrails.
“The Eastern District of Texas is one of the most popular venues for questionable lawsuits because the court moves cases to trial quickly and its local juries are perceived to be plaintiff-friendly,” said Diane Davis, executive director of East Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse (ETALA). “Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse will continue to call out these abuses when we see them and aggressively advocate for much needed reform.”
The Rio Grande Valley is singled out for excessive lawsuits – more than 10,000 filed by a small number of firms – surrounding historic hailstorms in 2012 and 2013. The cases have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for lawyers while insurance policyholders face skyrocketing premiums and, in some cases, an inability to obtain coverage. TALA and the Rio Grande Valley Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (RGV CALA) first exposed the troubling trend in a 2014 study of hailstorm lawsuits and subsequently advocated in favor of further reform by the Texas Legislature.
“It’s never a positive for a community to be a hot-bed of litigation,” said Julian Alvarez of the RGV CALA. “We continue to work hard to raise these civil justice concerns, as we did with our recent hailstorm study, and we’re hopeful our state leaders will embrace further reforms.”
Davis added, “In both the highway guardrail case in East Texas and with excessive hailstorm litigation in South Texas, when an area is viewed as being overly litigious or perceptions of unfairness persist, it invites further abuse of our civil justice system.”
“Our Texas Legislature and elected officials have made great strides to enact lawsuit reforms that protect consumers and ensure our courts are used for justice, not greed, but this latest Judicial Hellholes report suggests there is still much work to be done,” added Alvarez.
For the full report, click on: http://www.judicialhellholes.org/
10 comments:
Blacks in east Texas, stinking Mexicans in south Texas...two groups always wanting something for nothing. Par for the fucking course.
Or maybe the insurance companies just figured they could hoodwink a couple of under-educated populations (like the poster of 1:20 PM who strikes me as uneducated or perhaps just an ignorant bigot or maybe simply an asshole)and failed to pay legitimate claims.
I would not bid on east texas if it was free...
Look at the majority of billboards in Brownsville almost all of them display lawyers.
This writing should refer right back to the John Chambers as a case in point of Judicial Hellholes. How many innocent citizens have been railroaded into prison sentences by the judicial hellhole we all must endure created by the judicial industry members?
How many son's and daughter's no longer see their families as they sit in prison due to the egotistical corruption of our courts system in this county?
How many judges have refused to recuse themselves over the years, where to do so would have meant fair due process to the defendant? How many DA's have made deals with judges, attorney's, politicians to sandbag a citizen over a personal school yard mentality of payback?
One too many I would say is a safe bet.
Anonymous Jan 2 @ 1:20 People like you are amusing to a degree because you have no comprehension of the fact that a States well being or overall poor health (so to speak) is due to the lack of competent leadership in the State's highest office. Obviously you feel threatened by the existence of other than white folks in your immediate area and are thus compelled to lash out like a petulant child without the wherewithal to express oneself in a manner that would indicate you have any real education.
You imply quite clearly in your whine that you hate people of color and nationalities unlike your own. Just to be square, you must not realize that Mexican is a nationality, not an ethnicity nor a color. People born in Mexico are by region of birth Mexican. People born in the US are North American. See how that works.
In conclusion...Texas top officials are as corrupt as they come, starting with the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott. AG Paxton is under indictment and the list goes on.
It is no wonder that the valley is a mass of corrupt mindsets...it is merely a reflection of the highest office in Texas.
It is very much like a liberal to blame someone else for the corruption in the Rio Grande Delta rather than the scum that makes a conscious decision to be worthless which is the majority of the population in this region. The so called valley is nothing but welfare cockroaches looking to have as many babies as they can to keep pumping that Lone Star Card up and up. The "valley" also has the highest DUI rate in Texas. I know, someone else made them drink and drive. As a matter of fact, Hispanics have the highest DUI rate in Texas...period. Gregg must be secretly supplying beer to keep the masses happy, huh. The Rio Grande Delta is the sphincter muscle of Texas and the majority of the population are the turds that come out of it. The valley is a welfare state of stinking Mexicans. And yes Mr. Liberal, I am aware of the differences of nationality and ethnicity and race. I too had to take "Multicultural Studies" taught my mostly acid heads of the sixties...the red diaper doper babies who are the liberal fascists in our universities today. My point...their is no difference in the mindset of a stinking Mexican and his Mexican American counterpart. They both have a conniving mindset.
And your daughter will ,in all likelihood , marry a "mexican ".....hahaha!. Go fuck yourself , you ignorant simpleton !
Jan 6, 2016 at 5:22PM: Is that all you can muster moron....and muster is not something you put on a hamburger puto. Although I doubt you know the difference. The valleys motto and national anthem goes like this..."gimme something for free porfavor, can't you gimme something o.k.???" Go sing now puto. And remember, it was the tax payers that raised you. Your momma and papa were too worthless to get a job!
Yzaguirre and his band of burros will be visiting Mando Villalobos. It will be quite a long visit. Hey puto, I guess the Governor made them do it, huh. You are just one of many stupid fucking Mexicans in the Rio Grande Welfare State that cannot come to grips that corruption is in you alleles; it is genetic. Am I using words that are too big for you puto?
@ anonymous 1: 52
Awe..it sounds like I struck a cord with Mr. Bigot. Individual responsibility is a given Mr. Bigot. You lose all credibility in your racist rant which surely reaffirms what a puny minded human being you turned out to be in life. Just another hater spewing hate of others unlike yourself.
You claim a lot without any proof or factual data which is typical of your kind. Heck the Caucasians running this state can't even keep track of their own AG's criminal activity let alone a whole segment of society that you speak of, but you want everyone to believe you? Lol
It must be scary and difficult for you on a daily basis to live in Texas where so many Hispanics and Mexicans live and wander freely about. Such is implied in your rant. Hate comes from fear and you have a lot of hate inside you. One day you just may keel over from spewing so much hate, tsk, tsk, beware stress kills.
You might want to try moving to Alabama or the Carolina's where your kind are embraced to continue with ignorant and bigoted mindsets without worry that someone unlike yourself might live next door.
Your hateful vile rant is to me like water is to a duck...rolls right off as insignificant and inconsequential.
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