Forbes compiles its list and is kind enough to quote me at some length. Scariest of the scary? Los Angeles (ADA filing mills); Miami (med-mal); Atlantic County, N.J. (pharmaceutical); Starr County, Tex. (personal injury); Cook County, Ill. (product liability; I'm quoted on the Cook premium for otherwise routine injury cases); Mississippi (class actions; more properly, group and other mass actions, given the state's peculiar way of handling such claims); Clark County, Nev. (construction litigation); West Virginia (environmental lawsuits); Philadelphia (I'm quoted on the city's tradition of libel suits by public officials); (William Pentland, Forbes, Apr. 7; slideshow) (cross-posted from Overlawyered).
"The Worst Places To Get Sued in America"
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Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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