CALA in the News

Survey: Most Texans support tort reforms

Posted on September 28th, 2010
Author: Marilyn Tennissen | Source: Southeast Texas Record
Texas voters believe the state's legal reforms have helped the state in health care, business and jobs, a recent survey reveals.
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Poll: Texas Voters Just Don't Like Trial Lawyers

Posted on September 27th, 2010
Author: Ross Ramsey | Source: Texas Tribune
It's still poisonous in Texas politics to be painted with the trial lawyer brush, according to a poll done for Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse, a tort reform group.
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Lawyer greed layers tragedy on tragedy after rig explosion

Posted on June 7th, 2010
Author: Court Koenning | Source: Southeast Texas Record
In the weeks since the tragic explosion at an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation has grieved with the families of the 11 workers lost and watched with baited breath to see what kind of impact coastal residents and businesses will ...
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Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse

Posted on May 31st, 2010
Author: Stephanie Gibson | Source: NSIDE ATX, NSIDE Business, May 2010
Texas once had the biggest lawsuit abuse problem in the nation and was dubbed the “Wild West” of lawsuit abuse. Personal injury lawyers flocked to our state and bragged that they could win big money in Texas courts. They manufactured cases to ...
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Ambulance chasing in cross hairs

Posted on May 27th, 2010
Author: John MacCormack | Source: San Antonio Express-News
Testifying before the state House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee, plaintiff's lawyer Bill Edwards of Corpus Christi described a person based in Hidalgo County who earned millions of dollars by referring cases to plaintiff's lawyers.
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Put the brakes on ambulance chasing

Posted on May 26th, 2010
Author: Bob Parker | Source: The Pasadena Citizen
Ambulance chasing is booming in parts of Texas, undermining not only our system of justice but our sense of justice, as injured people are subjected to questionable and insensitive tactics at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives. Now, T...
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