Georgia used to top the American Tort Reform Association’s ‘Judicial Hellholes’ list. A new law improved the Peach State’s standing.
As state lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp worked to get tort reform across the finish line earlier this year, a Georgia courtroom announced one of the highest monetary verdicts in a case, sounding off as the latest canary in the coal mine.
Recently, a Cobb County jury ordered Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages in a single case related to its Roundup weedkiller. This isn’t an isolated incident.
Read more in the full piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.