re: What is Rispone's plan to end trial lawyer corruption?

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False. Foster’s tort reforms helped tremendously, especially with respects to Med Mal and workman’s comp. Now, we need more serious reform with respects to car accidents and slip-n-fall.

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The Foster administration was very thoughtful and effective with the changes in tort and procedural law. However, some of the most effective reforms of the Foster administration, especially regarding summary judgment, were substantially rolled back in favor of the plaintiff attorneys during the Jindal administration. Jindal was asleep at the switch and the plaintiff attorneys, led by Jimmy Genovese, attacked summary judgment law very effectively.

Why is summary judgment so important? Because everyone knows that insurers don't like to take the risk of trying a case. If there is a possible defense, the defense is often litigated in a Motion for Summary Judgment. If the Motion is denied, the insurers will start trying to settle. Any change which makes summary judgment more difficult to get or sustain is a pro-plaintiff attorney change.

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Motion for Summary Judgment

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What would your standard be to grant a motion for summary judgment?

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JBE has done ZERO.


He also hasn't done anything to make it worse, unlike Jindal.

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What exactly did Jindal do to "make it worse"?

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People need to take jury duty seriously. It’s as important as voting. Everyone I know, when subpoenaed, immediately calls the judge with excuses as to why they can’t serve.
When these lawyers start losing, settlements will be less likely and they will have to put in more work for less money and they will go away.

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most of these guys never set foot inside a court room, the insurance company just pay a settlement and move on. The Mckernans, Barts, etc are all about volume.

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If rates are lower won’t the insurance companies make less money?

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Not necessarily. What if we instituted an arbitrarily low cap for automobile claims? It would likely lower premiums, but would there have to be a direct correlation between premium amounts and profit?

I don't think people realize how much these insurance companies campaign for their own cause. They make it look like the information is coming from an unbiased source, but that is generally not the case.

There are some changes that need to be done to Louisiana's tort laws, however, cleaning up the system in a way that causes people to think twice about fraudulent actions is the only real way to fix the insurance system, without somebody getting hung out to dry.

John Bel supporter criticizing Rispone for not being anti-trial lawyer enough.

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I believe that he is simply saying that the availability of pretrial methods to decide specific issues of a case would lead to more, and more equitable, settlement discussions and settlements.

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No he didnt. He said summary judgment needs to be easier for defendants to get granted and this would lead to lower insurance rates.

I am asking in what way would this actually happen.

Just shooting the motherfrickers would be a good start

Firing squad, I think.

The plan is simple. Follow the Texas model and reduce the jury threshold to zero. Game over