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Chamber of Commerce Releases Annual State-by-State Lawsuit Climate Report

By Eric Lipman

As reported on the Blog of Legal Times, yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform released the results of its annual survey of the "lawsuit climate" in each of the 50 states. According to the survey, West Virginia has the worst lawsuit climate in the country, while, shocker, Delaware has the best. West Virginia's poor showing, something it has gotten quite used to over the years, was again largely attributed to its unique status as the only state with no intermediate appellate court, and thus no automatic appeal rights from the decision of a trial court. A bill to establish an intermediate appellate court died in committee earlier this month. Along with the report, the chamber rolled out a new advertising campaign, entitled "Jobs, Not Lawsuits." The ads, some of which will be shown at movie theaters during previews, feature small business owners talking about how their businesses were ruined by frivolous lawsuits. I caught this one on TV last night: The survey was administered to "in-house general counsel, senior litigators or attorneys, and other senior executives who are knowledgeable about litigation matters at public and private companies with annual revenues of at least $100 million," and...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).