re: Ambulance chasers and JBE lost bigly on tort reform at the state capital in BR this week

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People will not like this once they start getting summoned for jury duty every other week

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Like people in many other states with low jury thresholds? How do they do it?

How big of a victory will this really be if insurance doesn't go down and Louisiana still sucks?

Jury rules are that anyone called for service and discharged can’t be called again for 2 years.

This applies even if they don’t actually sit on a case.

I’ve been called about 4 times in 20 years and the only time I ever got close to being on a jury was in federal court. They empaneled the jury and I missed being considered by about 5 jurors.

All other times I went, I sat there for about 6 hours at most then got dismissed for the week and my name removed from the juror pool for 2 years.


Where am I going with this? Point is that we are already calling pools anyway and a vast majority of them are just sitting around then sent home because there were either no cases or a settlement was reached.

About the only change I see is that it raises the chances that someone called for jury duty actually gets placed on a jury, and even then there is a high chance that everyone settles for the trial threshold amount or close to it.

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On collateral source, plaintiff can still recover up to 40% of the difference between the billed/paid charges.

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In other words, fraud is still legal.

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We do not need to disrupt our economy at this time by convening juries to decide if [plaintiff's] soft tissue neck pain injury is worth $15K or $17K, many of which will settle the day of trial.

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Consider the following State Law (of course J Bel and his crowd would not accept):
During a traffic stop all cars would be impounded, no exceptions, with a fine, etc. unless they produced the following:
1. proof of current insurance
2. proof of current registration
3. licensed driver whose name matches registration or
has permission to drive the vehicle.
4. current inspection sticker.

If enforced think of all the vehicles which would be removed from the highways!!!!!!!!!

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Are you kidding me? You think that would stop people from driving? All of those things are still the law to have yet people chance it all the time.

You are way too big government if you support automatic impounding of your personal property simply because your inspection sticker is a couple months behind.

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simply because your inspection sticker is a couple months behind.

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bullshite way to look at it.

Maybe I shouldn't even be stopped when "simply because" I was doing 100 in a 70 zone.

A nation of laws which we select to enforce only which ones we want.

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ury rules are that anyone called for service and discharged can’t be called again for 2 years.

This applies even if they don’t actually sit on a case.

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I guess we ought to tell this to Doug Welborne. I've been called about 4 times in the past 2 years. Unreasonably low threshold. Maybe lower to $40K or $25K at most. One piece of the law I don't like and think is excessive.

I probably don't have the most popular opinions on this subject, but damn! Isn't it great to debate substantive topics for a change vs. whether or not pieces of granite are racist?

Toothless legislation has no teeth

The purpose of the reform is simple economics really.

Personal injury attorneys and liberals will try to tell you that the rates won’t go down because of tort reform, but the reason why the rates here are so high to begin with is because we pay out a lot more here for bullshite claims than anywhere else. Thus, by making the law similar to other places like Texas where they don’t pay out as much, the rates SHOULD go down eventually and a more friendly business environment created. A lot of Insurance companies won’t even write auto insurance policies here, such as nationwide. The idea is that they SHOULD start lowering rates because they can now and generate more policy holders. Other insurance companies will then have to adjust because of the lower rates the other ones are offering. I believe the insurance commissioner can do a lot to move the rates down too