Posts for Lawsuit Abuse

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

It looks like lawsuit lending may take another state by storm.

The outcome of a lawsuit currently makes its way through a Denver District Court may bring the controversial lawsuit lending business into the Colorado. The lawsuit loan industry left the state in early 2010 “when the attorney general's office declared the firms should have to register as lenders under the law and abide by state regulations for such companies.”

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

• Legal reform absent from speech
“Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's first State of the State address focused on creating jobs and economic growth. But he didn't mention legal reform. "It was a pro-jobs and pro-growth speech," said Steve Roberts, president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. "Governor Tomblin is to be applauded for bringing so much focus to job creation and economic development."” The West Virginia Record

In the movie “Strange Brew,” Bob and Doug McKenzie take a beer bottle with a mouse inside and try to use it as leverage to get the liquor store manager to give them a free case of beer.

What Bob and Doug McKenzie did not do is file a lawsuit.

This is not the case with a Madison County man who is suing PepsiCo for a dead mouse he supposedly found in a can of Mountain Dew he bought at his workplace.

Of course, “Strange Brew” takes place in the “Great White North” where perhaps they are little more genteel when it comes to litigation. The mouse in the Mountain Dew took place in Madison County, which is the nation’s fifth-worst “Judicial Hellhole” according to a recent report from the American Tort Reform Foundation.