I read a legal newsletter dealing with Texas law. When the tort reform law passed there, you would think all the civil litigation attorneys were looking for the nearest bridge, ready to hurl themselves from it.
They all lamented how the reform would deny justice to victims of malpractice and negligence, but it was very obvious they were really lamenting their loss of multi-million dollar contingency fees. Clearly, their ox is being gored and they don't like it.
This is the exact reason that it has proven impossible to have any sort of national tort reform.