Center for Justice & Democracy

08/26/2026

https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2026/08/10/florida-chooses-insurers-and-their-profits-over-homeowners "Florida has repeatedly applied tort-reform medicine to its insurance problem since the 1980s. None of it has helped, according to Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School and co-founder of the advocacy group Americans for Insurance Reform. She and a former Texas insurance commissioner, Robert Hunter, produced a series of national studies going back to 1999 and discovered time and again that tort reform never helps customers.

'The insurance industry comes to a state and says rates are going up and the only way to bring them down is to pass tort reform,' Doroshow told me. 'In every single case, rates continue to go up, because the reasons rates go up have nothing to do with these kinds of tort limits.'”

US states are supposedly the laboratories of democracy, cooking up and testing local solutions to national problems. But some of those labs are more like Walter...

07/23/2026

Um, this looks kinda hilarious.

Not all underdogs are dogs. Coyote vs. ACME only in theaters August...

07/10/2026

There is no limit to the depravity of this company.

Uber Technologies Inc. has moved to thwart lawsuits funded by outside investors by requiring customers and drivers who sue the company to disclose details of any such arrangements.

06/25/2026

In 1974, Monsanto began selling Roundup, a weedkiller whose main active ingredient is glyphosate, an extremely toxic herbicide. The company knew as far back as the 1980s that Roundup and glyphosate were likely carcinogenic to humans. Not only did Monsanto tell no one, it actively tried to conceal the link. By the time Roundup was purchased in 2018 by German pharmaceutical and biotech giant Bayer, thousands of sick and dying Roundup customers had sued. Bayer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to effectively end all future state court litigation entirely. Today, they got their wish.

The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.

06/17/2026

Powerful. Uber should be ashamed of itself.

Sexual assault survivors and advocates are urging Congress to strip a measure that could shield Uber and Lyft from lawsuits over assaults, injuries, and deaths.

06/11/2026

06/10/2026

More reasons to !

Camp Mystic faces five wrongful death lawsuits. It wants to resolve them out of court, through arbitration.

06/08/2026

We have a new study out today, called Civil Justice Skewed: The Groups and the Billions Spent Advocating for “Tort Reform.” It is essentially a snapshot of the “tort reform” movement today, i.e., the main lobbying and research forces that are spending millions (or more) to enact restrictions on our legal rights. Without even considering dark money election-focused Super PACs, or direct spending by individual companies, what we found was pretty incredible.

This study is also a testament to those who are fighting back, holding the line against astonishing money and influence, and in this Semiquincentennial year, actually respecting the values on which this nation was founded.
https://centerjd.org/content/tort-reform-groups-2026-update

05/31/2026

Quite something. Also, go states!

The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups.

05/12/2026