Tort reform is causing a detrimental effect on injured Texas’ citizens and the trial lawyers who represent them. Laws that capped damages in personal injury and medical malpractice verdicts are causing lawyers to reject many legitimate cases because the expenses now exceed the damages lawyers could recover for clients, according to two studies and a panel of legal experts presented at the ABA meeting in Dallas this past week.
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