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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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Auto Insurance & Limitations of Recovery – H.B. 434 (2025)

Creates a limitation on recovery of certain damages if a driver does not have automobile insurance. Provides that there shall be no recovery for ...

Louisiana

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Comparative Fault Reform – H.B. 431 (2025)

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...

Louisiana

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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 ...

Kansas

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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...

Georgia

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Comprehensive Tort Reform – S.B. 68 (2025)

Phantom Damages & Letters of ProtectionAllows a jury to consider not only “amounts charged” but also amounts “actually necessary to satisfy such ...

Georgia

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Phantom Damages Reform – H.B. 1204 (2025)

Provides that recoverable past medical expenses includes only those costs that were actually paid by or on behalf of the plaintiff, plus any charges ...

Arkansas

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Deliberate Intent – H.B. 3270 (2023)

Limits the amount of noneconomic damages recoverable in a deliberate intent case to $500,000.

West Virginia

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Asbestos Litigation Reform – H.B. 328 (2023)

Address over-naming in asbestos cases and requires plaintiffs with nonmalignant conditions to demonstrate impairment pursuant to objective medical cri...

Utah

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Vicarious Liability for Rideshare Services – H.B. 1745 (2023)

Establishes a framework for arbitration and civil actions against rideshare services. The law only applies when the rideshare service is defendant, t...

Texas

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Third Party Litigation Financing – S.B. 269 (2023)

Subjects TPLF to the maximum usury interest rate or a 25% fee cap, requires automatic disclosure of the agreement in litigation and requires registrat...

Montana

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