This is the exact opposite of tort reform.
This will inspire far more lawsuits and will give lots more strength to plaintiffs to blackmail defendants into settling out of court.
This is hell on earth and had undone any good Arnold started to do on the business end here in California.
What business will want to move to an area like this now where not only do employees have an ability to sue over nothing, but now they can have the employer be stuck with the bill for both ends of the debacle.
I want to cuss so bad in my comments. I only don't do so out of respect for FR.
More feeding at the public trough.
I once decided to run for local elected office. The most sickening thing I then was forced to participate in was to vote in closed session whether to settle and pay the lawyer's fees at taxpayers expense, or vote to fight the junk suit at an unknown expense to the taxpayers!
What would any of you have voted?
The public is just not aware of this fairly long standing shituaion and undoubtedly is yet another reason I'm now a recovering citizen polititian that wasn't re-elected.
For example: An EnvironMentalist sued the county because we closed a landfill and contracted to recover the methane to run generators to make electricity... A worthwhile environmentally clean power source. He claimed it created noise pollution!!!