If you’re a property or business owner in Georgia, a new tort reform bill, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp on April 21, 2025, may affect you. It impacts how current and future civil tort lawsuits ...

Back in 2002, George McGovern, a Democrat, and Alan Simpson, a Republican, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed decrying the U.S. tort system as having become a lucrative “sporting contest” in which ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Faced with the federal government’s inability to address the economic effect of out-of-control product liability judgments, a growing number of states are taking steps to overhaul their civil justice ...

Sir: I want you to draw your attention towards the social problem of torts in our society. It is a very common problem nowadays. People are getting badly affected due to the negligence of other ones.

The problem springs from the statute’s complicated structure and language, the latter of which is by turns ambiguous or vague. The statute’s purpose is also uncertain, creating a state of affairs that ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...