- Activist high court, no-fault PPI auto insurance, assignment-of-benefits (AOB) claims helped Florida win top Judicial Hellhole ranking from American Tort Reform Foundation [Amy O’Connor, Insurance Journal]
- Maybe getting people interested in the age-old ethical dangers of champerty and maintenance would be easier if litigation finance were framed as a Chamber of Commerce vs. Peter Thiel match-up [Jacob Gershman, WSJ] “Prosecutors Investigate Firms That Offer Plaintiffs Early Cash” [Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times]
- Seventh Circuit: parents, not Starbucks, bore duty of protecting 3-year-old from harm resulting from playing on crowd-control stanchions [Roh v. Starbucks]
- British Columbia is only Canadian province without limits on soft-tissue injury claims after car crashes, and now fiscal implosion at province-owned auto insurer ICBC may force leftist NDP government to reconsider that [Mike Smyth/The Province, Jason Proctor and Karin Larsen, CBC]
- “NYS Exposed: The one law adding $10,000 to the cost of a new home” [WHEC, New York Post editorial on scaffold law and other elements of state liability scene, earlier]
- “Former South Carolina Lawmaker Sentenced for Improperly Using Office to Help Trial Lawyers” [U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform; Glenn Smith, Post and Courier; John Monk, The State]
Filed under: Canada, Florida, insurance, litigation finance, low-speed auto collisions, New York, New York state, Seventh Circuit, South Carolina
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British Columbia auto insurance–
It looks like the “Leftist” NDP government is not to blame for a mess they inherited from a center-left “Liberal” government.
(As Canada’s version of California, British Columbia does not have a viable right-of-center party. On the other hand, in the USA’s Deep South, many right-of-center politicians are quite happy to enrich plaintiff law firms at the expense of the general public.)
I’m not sure that I would agree that the BC Liberals are center-left. The federal Liberals are center-left, but the BC Liberals are considerably to the right of the federal Liberals. For almost all of 40 years, BC was ruled by the Social Credit party, a peculiar of right-wing populist party unique to western Canada. When the NDP (social democratic) won the provincial election in 1991, the Socreds were reduced to 7 of the 75 seats in the legislature and the party fell apart. Most former Socreds were absorbed by the Liberals, resulting in a rightward shift of the Liberal party.