Search our comprehensive database to learn about the civil justice reform laws ATRA has worked to pass at the federal level and in state legislatures, when they were passed, and whether they have been challenged in the courts. Newly enacted legislation for the current year is typically added and updated in July to record the individual state accomplishments of the last legislative year.
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Third Party Litigation Financing — S.B. 355 (2024)
Requires all foreign third party litigation funders to disclose specific information to the attorney general. In addition, it provides that any litig...
Third Party Litigation Financing — S.B. 580 (2024)
Extends TPLF litigation safeguards and disclosure requirements enacted in 2019 for consumer lawsuit lending to apply to all TPLF by: extending the cu...
Third Party Litigation Financing Reform – S.B. 511 (2025)
Furthers the reforms of the 2023 Litigation Financing Transparency and Consumer Protection Act by creating the Foreign Investment in Litigation Finan...
Joint and Several Liability Reform – H. 3430 (2025)
Joint and Several LiabilityA defendant that is less than 50% at fault for a plaintiff’s damages, when factoring in the fault of other defendants and ...
Third Party Litigation Financing Reform – H.B. 2619 (2025)
Subjects commercial TPLF agreements to discovery upon request. Information related to the agreement is not admissible as evidence at trial. Disclosur...
Limits on Noneconomic DamagesEstablishes a limit on noneconomic damages of $350,000 for bodily injury claims and a $1 million limit for a permanent m...
Amends Missouri Supreme Court Rule 52.08 relating to class actions. With certain exceptions, the bill makes changes to mirror the Federal Rules of Ci...
Allows juries to hear evidence of both billed and paid amounts at trial, and repeals a provision in current law that allows recovery of 40% of the di...
Eliminates a presumption of causation of injuries in certain circumstances. Intended to legislatively overrule Housley v. Cerise, 579 So. 2d 973 (La....
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