Improving our Laws, Defending Reforms
Texas has made great strides in improving the state’s legal climate, but we must be vigilant in protecting the progress we’ve made. Personal injury lawyers are unrelenting and push hundreds of proposals that would create new ways to sue and undo civil justice reforms in Texas.
TALA is always at the ready, challenging efforts to take our state back to the days when Texas was the country’s lawsuit abuse poster child with a broken legal system that invited junk lawsuits from around the world.
We’ve fought proposals that would have limited citizens’ rights, undone reforms, unleashed a flood of questionable lawsuits and threatened access to health care. We’ve also worked to improve our laws and help citizens be wise legal consumers and active participants in our civil justice system.
In Texas, we’ve come so far in creating a legal system that is based on common sense and fairness. It’s been a long, hard battle to improve our state’s civil justice system and every legislative session proves that now is no time to rest.
Ambulance Chasing 101 - Barratry
Barratry, more commonly known as “ambulance chasing,” is illegal in Texas, but many people are unaware and fall victim to this unethical practice. Some lawyers go so far as to offer people cash to represent them…while still in the hospital. Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse encourages citizens to put the brakes on ambulance chasing by becoming educated legal consumers. TALA’s print and television advertising campaign is designed to inform Texans of their rights, to educate them about how to report illegal lawsuit solicitations, and to urge lawmakers to crack down on unscrupulous personal injury lawyers who exploit Texas families.
