Lawsuit Abuse Impact

Senior attorneys at America’s largest employers say state court liability systems have steadily improved over the last several years, but less than half of them rate the state courts as “excellent” or “pretty good.”  These lawyers say Delaware still has the best legal climate in the country, and West Virginia remains the worst.

Those are among the findings of Lawsuit Climate 2008: Ranking the States, an annual assessment of state liability systems conducted by the nonpartisan market research firm Harris Interactive, and released April 23, 2008 by ILR.

• Lawsuit Climate 2008:  Ranking the States
• Lawsuit Climate Report (PDF)
• Full Harris Survey (PDF)

 

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