The Rising Cost of Hidden Tort Taxes
01 November 2024
Tiger Joyce, President of the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), discusses the excessive tort costs harming small businesses, jobs and economic growth, which states are judicial hellholes and which are models for sensible tort laws, why third party litigation financing is the single greatest change for the worse in the litigation system today, and what voters should look for in candidates when it comes to supporting a balanced justice system.
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