Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System, authored by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Hovannes Abramyan, and Anthony P. Archie; Pacific Research Institute (PRI); 2007, can be downloaded at www.pacificresearch.org.

The Pacific Research Institute has demonstrated once again the very real costs that America’s perverse system of “jackpot justiceâ€� imposes on our economy. Manufacturers have to factor in potential litigation costs when making investment decisions or determining where to site facilities. (Mississippi, for example, competed successfully to become home to a new Toyota plant only after undertaking aggressive tort reform.) The excesses of our civil litigation system, detailed so rigorously by PRI, means those decisions are made with less attention toward keeping America's competitive edge ” and that's a recipe for a second-class status in the global economy.

John Engler, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers and former Governor of Michigan

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