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Litigation among factors driving surge in California's auto insurance rates
California’s auto insurance premiums spiked by 48% in 2024, with the average cost for full coverage hitting $2,575 by year’s end. A report estimated California's rates could hit $2,732 by the end of 2025. -
Pete’s Plumbing CFO Hillis: ‘Lawsuits are out of control’
As auto insurance rates continue to rise across the country, critics are increasingly pointing to what they describe as rampant abuse of the legal system by trial lawyers. -
Los Angeles-area attorneys turn to billboards to expand their reach
Personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles seeking to boost their client leads have increasingly turned to freeway billboards to get their message out to captive audiences sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, recent data shows. -
Rampant PAGA, Prop 65 lawsuits land California courts high on list of worst U.S. 'Judicial Hellholes'
The report issued by the American Tort Reform Association says California ranks third on the annual list, thanks to its continued status as lawyers' 'laboratory' for innovative ways to increase businesses' lawsuit risk -
California is the 6th highest state spending $1.4 billion on trial lawyer advertisements
Study: California spent $85.3 million on 809,000 tv advertisements from 2017 to 2021 -
California returns to the top spot of the 20th annual 'Judicial Hellhole' ranking
California is back in the top spot of the 20th annual American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF)’s Judicial Hellhole ranking after having dropped to No. 3 last year. -
Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week: Small businesses suing insurers over COVID-19, though not having much success in court
More than 5,000 lawsuits have been filed nationwide relating to COVID-19 and the types of complaints the American Tort Reform Association is most concerned about are small businesses suing insurers