PROTECT CONSUMER JUSTICE.ORG

As between a plaintiff and a defendant in a lawsuit when someone sues the person or company that caused their injury, only the plaintiff has given something up to get their health coverage. Indemnity against healthcare costs is not only a collateral benefit, it is the plaintiff’s collateral benefit.

A two-year investigation by reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards found Las Vegas hospitals averaged more than one incident a day of “preventable injuries, life-threatening infections or other harm.”

“Limiting the legal and financial responsibility of corporate wrongdoers is a bad idea in the best of times. But in times like these–when corporate malfeasance is waxing and government oversight is waning–it is almost unthinkable.”

BP’s online magazine points out how Gulf businesses are booming thanks to the oil catastrophe…well, except for those fishing boats…

A law professor and a former investment banker make the case for corporations facing full accountability when they cause harm.

A Los Angeles Times reporter tells the story of a man with no means who was able to use the civil justice system to tell his story to a jury of ordinary citizens.

Tort-war front groups for big oil, insurance and tobacco get walloped on election day.