BusinessInsurance.com released an article on December 13, 2012 stating the California Civil courts have topped the American Tort Reform Association’s list of ‘judicial hellholes.’  The Association’s annual report notes “abuses of the civil justice system” in jurisdictions that “are among the most “unfair and out-of-balance in the nation.”

Per the report’s executive summary, “California is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the consumer class action.”   “Its plaintiff-friendly laws spur ridiculous lawsuits against companies that sell products ranging from breakfast cereal to bagged walnuts.

“California’s small businesses have been under siege from trolling disability-access lawyers and their professional plaintiffs who look for technical rules violations, then demand thousands of dollars to settle.”

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