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South Carolina Senators Under Fire From Trial Lawyer Lobby As Tort Battle Rages On
What self-serving political calculus is really driving the State House’s latest special interest front group?
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Trial lawyers do like their misinformation, that’s for sure.
The trial lawyers want to keep their racket that allows them to hoist a small company on the gallows for 1 or 2% fault to nonetheless pay +90% of a huge tort verdict in a hellhole judicial district. Meanwhile the small business has to raise prices to cover their massively expensive liability insurance policy (or go out of business), while their big corporate giant competitors that have massive war chests for litigation can just fold it into the cost of doing business. The citizens then pay higher prices on everything, lose businesses (especially in rural areas where the big corporations don’t really have a presence in anyway), and the rural areas just get poorer. Everyone gets screwed except the trial lawyers. This reform bill, after 40 years of failed attempts to change the system, MUST go through.
Slick is just another punk groupie living his life at the statehouse like he’s someone of importance. SC citizens will lose no matter if this bill passes or not simply because legislators refuse to represent the citizens the are supposed to.
Surely they can at least pass the House Dram Shop Bill with the modification to the 1% clause of Subsection F.
We need tort reform, but this bill has problems.