Attorney / Medical Follow

With three consecutive monthly articles in this publication earlier in the year, I laid out the American Tort Reform Association's analyses of the litigation industry's unprecedented lobbying campaign in statehouses across the country and the types of liability-expanding legislation it was expected to pursue. As 2009 legislative sessions have now ended in most states and are beginning to wind down in others, this is a good time for an update of both the trial lawyers' campaign and ATRA's "Defensive Efforts" to hold the line.