re: Louisiana Tort Reform Advances to House Floor

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Here we go again - a bunch of non lawyers supporting legislation that takes away Louisiana citizens’ legal rights in favor of foreign insurance companies’ bottom line.

Of course just like coronavirus, not you or anyone in your family is never going to get destroyed in a car accident.

The CEOs and executives for these billion dollar companies appreciate your willingness to give up your only method of recourse to aid their struggling companies. I’m sure they’re going to pay all legitimate injury claims out of the kindness of their hearts.

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Texas says hello. Their ability to build wealth for citizens makes your post look totally biased and small minded.

Only on Louisiana will people actually argue that we can get ahead in life by stealing from each other, cheating each other and, in your case, suing each other.

Throw me something, Mister.

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Only on Louisiana will people actually argue that we can get ahead in life by stealing from each other, cheating each other and, in your case, suing each other.

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You hit the nail on the head.....

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Texas says hello. Their ability to build wealth for citizens makes your post look totally biased and small minded.

Only on Louisiana will people actually argue that we can get ahead in life by stealing from each other, cheating each other and, in your case, suing each other.

Throw me something, Mister.

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Tort reform is gonna make us Texas

I’ve now heard it all.

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Tort reform is gonna make us Texas

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Please enlighten us as to how people suing the hell out of each other for even the most minor of accidents is a net positive for this state.

I really don’t know enough about either side to make a judgement.

The thing I keep coming back to for those who don’t think Louisiana needs reform is... do you think Louisiana is the only state that has it right and that all other 49 states should follow our ways? That they are not nearly as protected as we are from the Terrible insurance companies?

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Of course just like coronavirus, not you or anyone in your family is never going to get destroyed in a car accident.

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i don't see how these changes affect THOSE people

What are the specific "reforms"?

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Are they still trying to lower the jury threshold? How easy do you think it will be to seat a jury anytime in the foreseeable future? Hundreds of people in the jury pool room waiting to get herded through the courthouse like cattle so they can be picked to be crammed like sardines in to the jury box. What happens when somebody coughs?

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I don’t think you know how infrequently PI cases are tried to a jury.

Source: me. I’m an insurance defense attorney in MS and LA

Collateral source elimination is HUGE.

I tried a case in February where the Plaintiff blackboarded $220k in meds, almost every single penny of which was paid by his health insurer. Judges in MS get questions from the jury all the time about whether a plaintiff had health insurance.

As to the jury threshold - MS’s is $200 and our courtrooms aren’t overflowing with PI jury trials. Like I said in previous pages, jury trials force people to get real about their cases. I’ve seen juries zero a plaintiff in a parking lot accident even where liability was admitted and there was a surgery. Conversely, a jury in Biloxi recently awarded $1.5m to a little boy who had his eyelid ripped off by a clothing rack at Dillard’s and Dillard’s took the position the injury was not foreseeable.