All Americans Pay for Jackpot Justice vs. Truckers

Real Clear Policy ^ | October 26, 2025 | Steve Cortes

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On highways all over the United States, it’s hard to miss the giant trial lawyer billboards that now abound, many of them specifically targeting truckers. If a driver or a transportation firm acts negligently, of course they should pay fair recompense to legitimate victims.

But a lot of super powerful, scurrilous tort lawyers do not seek justice or fairness. Instead, they chase fortunes with exaggerated or simply made-up claims. As a result, every single American pays a steep price for this manipulated system, from the unaffordable groceries to soaring monthly premiums for insurance.

Today, an elite class of plaintiffs’ attorneys has forged a corrupt model that mocks jurisprudence and turns tragedy into a casino game of jackpot justice. These legal sharks target the livelihoods of the men and women who keep our economy moving…literally.

By attacking and taxing the supply chains of America, frivolous lawsuits and outlandish awards cost every American family thousands of dollars per year every time they shop at any retailer or order any product online.

The numbers are staggering. In 2022, tort costs in America hit $529 billion, equal to 2.1% of GDP, and these legal bills are growing at more than double the rate of inflation. If trends persist, that figure will climb toward $900 billion by 2030.  The lawyers who thrive from this perversion of justice inflict a stealth tax on every product and service we consume. In Georgia, the per-household burden is $5,050. In Texas, families pay nearly $4,600 extra annually in lawsuit-related costs. These amounts are not theoretical. In reality, these abuses raise kitchen-table prices for everything from medicines to insurance premiums. 

People who have been sued unjustly know just how manipulated certain jurisdictions are in America. The trial lawyers expertly exploit such locales, using “forum shopping” to file claims of inflated...

[bigbob]

Lawyers should once again be banned from advertising.

[alternatives?]

It is hard to feel any sympathy toward trucking companies that hire cheap illegal aliens to drive their trucks.

[Liz]

The Indian truck killers didn’t just sneak across
the US border and become truck-drivers by themselves:
<><>First in the chain were the tax-dodging and cynical Indian truck-owners,
<><>some 12,000 Sikhs own trucking companies in the US
<><>who paid for his indentured-slave-journey to the USA,
<><>with the logistics handled by cross-border organized crime gangs,
<><>propaganda paid for by high-level well-organized Indian NGOS,
<><>political protection organized by Biden leftovers
<><>Biden globalists and marxists within the US Government.

Captainpaintball posted: Indians who are coming now, are part of a sub rosa Indian plan across the globe, coming from India, of course, to “spread influence and power” through sheer “brute force immigration,” while self-motivated India simultaneously rids their hellhole country of its excess population, easing its own burden, and reducing the number of shi* piles in their streets and waterways.

[Uncle Miltie]

How about helping ICE by turning in illegal aliens killing Americans with Big Rigs?

[ggboss]

I believe the best thing that can be done to reform the tort jurisprudence system is to change it so that the loser of the suit pays. This would encourage corporations to fight spurious lawsuits rather than settle in order to avoid legal expenses. Don’t suppose I could ever happen

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s the obvious remedy, therefore you are correct, it will never happen.

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