Judicial Hellholes 2011/2012 Report

December 15, 2011

PhoebeStonbely

Judicial Hellholes 2011/2012 Report-

New York City and Albany Rank Sixth Worst in U.S.

New York’s famously plaintiff-friendly civil justice system is finally receiving the recognition it deserves. The American Tort Reform Foundation released their annual Judicial Hellholes Report today, ranking New York City and Albany as the sixth worst “judicial hellhole” in the country. Previously on the watch list in 2011, the warnings signs weren’t enough to keep Albany and New York City from earning the dubious, if well deserved, distinction of “Judicial Hellhole.”

Last year’s report warned that New York’s job creation rate lagged behind the rest of the country at just one-fifth the average rate. Moreover, the Empire State lost 393,000 jobs to other states. This year’s report once again alerts the decreasing populations in central and western New York and the increasing loss of doctors to “low-tort” states such as Texas.

This report identifies various causes for our state’s continued downward tumble to a “Judicial Hellhole” ranking, including our legislators’ cozy relationship with the plaintiff’s bar and certain elected officials who are blinded by personal gains from the desperate state New York is in. It also highlights the speech given by Corporate Counsel Michael Cardozo earlier this year calling for tort reform to help reduce the $561 million paid out by NYC for tort related claims in 2011. Various examples are given of the ridiculous lawsuits which clog our courts, drag down our economy and which ultimately put us as the sixth worst “Judicial Hellhole” in the nation

Please read complete article at link below:


http://www.nylawsuitreform.org/2011/12/judicial-hellholes-20112012-report-new-york-city-and-albany-rank-sixth-worst-in-u-s/

WATCH LIST


Beyond the Judicial Hellholes, this report calls attention
to several additional jurisdictions that also bear

watching due to troubling developments or their histories

of abusive litigation. Watch List jurisdictions fall

on the cusp – they may drop into the Hellholes abyss or

rise to the promise of Equal Justice Under Law.


 Cook County, Illinois falls from the Judicial


Hellholes list due to a relatively quiet year with


respect to the types of unsound rulings and


extraordinary verdicts that have cemented its


Hellholes reputation in the past.

Editor's note: Cook County has fallen from the "Judicial Hellholes". Isn't the Probate Court of Cook County part of the Cook County Courts?  Why should the Probate Court of Cook County which has fought so vigorously for the bottom of the underclass "Oscar" lose the title of "Judicial Hellhole"?  Probate Court is not fair.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
 
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