If you have not been paying attention lately to the Illinois State Legislature you will not have seen how they have been tackling the issue of lawsuit lending. With the social acceptance of lawsuits and the average civil case costing $15,000, lawsuit lending has been gaining ground in the United States. You lend money to [...]
A new legislature has been sworn in and we are now in the process of shaping our state’s future, which is faced with serious unemployment and deficits and a very unclear future. Even the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke has said this economy might take 4-5 years to straighten out. So what better [...]
Very early one Sunday morning before the June primary election, I left the house with a purpose – I was going to place our CALA yard signs among the hundreds of candidate signs lining the streets of a busy thoroughfare between Newport Beach and Irvine. We had less than a dozen signs to place in between [...]
The Los Angeles Times recently had an article about a Santa Monica woman who was receiving public criticism from a lawsuit filed by a different woman with the same name. This other woman looked up directions on Google and sued the search engine after she was then hit by a car. She blames Google for the accident. Unlike [...]
The primary results are nearly in and the trial lawyers seem to have had a pretty good night. You can check the results at www.sos.ca.gov The election will be certified in 30 days. There are still thousands of absentee ballots out there, but so far it look like a banner day for the trial lawyers in [...]
The CA Commission on Disability Access (CCDA) was established through legislation (SB 1608) signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the fall of 2008. It is a 17-member commission with a budget of $80,000 and six committees. One of the committees is the Civil Enforcement Committee, which is designed to look at the whole issue of litigation in [...]
The “We Need More Jobs, Not More Lawsuits”, continued into the Central Valley last week, starting off in Bakersfield with a meeting at Jocko’s Electrical Supply. The owner and General Manager, Bruce Peterson, met with CALA and is a true activist. Peterson is very involved in the National Federation of Independent Business. He gets our [...]
There is nothing better than getting out of Sacramento and hitting the road to see and hear how consumers and business people are feeling about the times we live in. So on Monday, May 10, I hit the road to start the first phase of the “We Need More Jobs, Not More Lawsuits” tour. The main [...]
KABC – TV reports they have found a man who doesn’t have to work because he makes his living filing lawsuits against small business owners who are not in complete compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The story says he’s notorious in the LA Court system because he’s filed at least 70 such lawsuits [...]
Are you surprised? I guess I should not be, but there is still a little of me that thought some legislators would get it. Clearly, they do not. As the trial lawyers swooped down on Sacramento for their annual right of passage, I truly thought there might be a glimmer of hope for legal reform, but not [...]