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Texans for Lawsuit Reform
In 1994, a small group of volunteers banded together in Houston to form Texans for Lawsuit Reform in order to take on what has been described as the most powerful and well-funded special interest group in Texas: the plaintiff lawyer’s lobby.
Since then, thousands of Texans from every walk of life and in nearly every county in the state have helped make common sense reform of our civil justice system part of Texas law. Once described as the “Lawsuit Capital of the World,” Texas legislators have responded to the voice of the people and have taken giant steps toward bringing fair and balanced reforms to our civil justice system.
Texas tort reform seeks to eliminate abuses in our civil justice system while protecting the individual’s right to bring legitimate lawsuits forward. These reforms are directly responsible for more than $3 billion dollars in consumer and business insurance rate reductions and have caused economic development benefits of more than $8 billion during the past five years. As significant is the restoration of predictability and fairness in a system that was once known around the world as exorbitantly expensive and wildly unfair.
While much work remains to be done to both improve our system and protect the reforms already enacted, Texas has gone far in returning “justice” to the civil justice system.
Texans for Lawsuit Reform is a bipartisan coalition whose 10,634 supporters reside in 599 different towns and cities throughout Texas and represent 1,101 different businesses, professions and trades. For further information visit www.tortreform.com.