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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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....
Provides that if a person suffers injury, death, or loss partly as the result of his own negligence and partly as a result of the fault of another pe...
Third Party Litigation Financing Reform – S.B. 54 (2025)
Requires disclosure of TPLF agreement to the court for in camera review and a party to deliver a sworn statement disclosing certain facts within 30 ...
Third Party Litigation Financing Reform – S.B. 69 (2025)
Applies to any arrangement in which a person or business provides financing to a consumer or entity, or its counsel, in exchange for a right to rece...
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