Reforms

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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Date
Commercial Trucking Litigation Reform – S.F. 228
Provides for a limit of $5 million on noneconomic damages per plaintiff, with exceptions to the limit as specified.  The limit adjusts for inflation e...
Iowa
Medical Liability Reform – H.F. 161
Provides, among other things, a limit on noneconomic damages of $250,000.  If the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or imp...
Iowa
Lawsuit Lending – H.B. 1124
Amends the law concerning civil proceeding advance payment (CPAP) transactions to provide that in a civil proceeding in which a consumer claimant has ...
Indiana
Apex Doctrine – S.B. 74
Includes language commonly referred to as the apex doctrine, which provides for certain criteria required to secure the deposition of certain high ran...
Georgia
Assignment of Benefits / Auto Glass Repair – S.B. 1002
Prohibits repair shops from offering an inducement to a customer in exchange for making an insurance claim for motor vehicle glass repair and also pro...
Florida
Legal Advertising – H.B. 1205
Prohibits a person or entity issuing a legal services advertisement from doing specified things, including presenting the advertisement as a medical ...
Florida
Comprehensive Tort Reform – H.B. 837
Provides uniform standards to assist juries in calculating the accurate value of medical damages in personal injury or wrongful death actions and add...
Florida
Seat Belt Evidence Admissibility – S.B. 439
Displaces a longstanding provision that had excluded seat belt non-usage evidence for any purpose if the claimant stipulated to a reduction of dama...
West Virginia
Intermediate Court of Appeals – S.B. 275
Establishes an intermediate court of appeals in the State of West Virginia. Prior to enactment of this legislation, the state did not have an inter...
West Virginia
Asbestos & Silica Litigation Reform / Over-Naming – H.B. 2495
Provides that within 60 days of filing an asbestos or silica action, a plaintiff must file a sworn information form that specifies the evidence tha...
West Virginia
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