La Tort Reform dead for 2025

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Five legislative leaders met with Gov. Jeff Landry and two prominent trial attorneys in Texas last week to hunt turkey and talk legislative business — including whether lawmakers will keep trying to make it harder for lawyers to collect big payouts for clients injured in car accidents. Gordon McKernan, one of the two attorneys, flew House Speaker Phillip DeVillier, Senate President Cameron Henry and three committee chairpersons on his law firm’s jet on Monday to the Tributary Sporting Club near Austin. Landry met them there. They all returned Wednesday. Landry issued the invitations, and Protect Louisiana Values, one of his political organizations, paid for their stay at the hunting resort, lawmakers said. The trip came at a time when business-oriented Republican legislators have been expressing concern privately that Landry will again favor trial attorneys on major legislation during the upcoming legislative session. Last year, Landry vetoed one bill involving a legal doctrine known as “collateral source” that would have limited potential payouts for trial lawyers. He also insisted that legislators limit several other measures opposed by trial lawyers before agreeing to support them. At the time, he said he rejected the collateral source bill to ensure that working people and consumers would receive what they deserve in medical costs following an accident caused by others.

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