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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) has spent the first weeks of spring taking multiple victory laps following a legislative session that concluded with the enactment of top policy priorities. On April 21 ...

Macon Senator John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, sponsored SB 68. Lawmakers pushing for tort reform say businesses and consumers will benefit. Opponents say the bill gives more power to insurance companies.

Since 2022, the Georgia General Assembly has passed several pieces of legislation providing significant impacts for civil litigation and litigants in the State’s courts. Together, the new laws ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Perhaps no issue at the Georgia Capitol this legislative session has loomed as controversially as tort reform. Tort – the sector of law that deals in civil ...

Sponsors of tort reform bills in Georgia argue that an overhaul of the legal system is overdue, while opponents fear it could harm victims of abuse. Concerned parents and survivors are lobbying ...

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The Georgia General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, marking the start of what is expected to be a pivotal year for tort reform in the state. With Governor Brian Kemp and legislative leaders ...

“We still need something that gives us the ability to advise our clients of the likely outcome at trial,” said Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers litigator Bill Casey. Some proponents of tort reform ...

(The Center Square) – Georgia dropped off the American Tort Reform Foundation’s list of “Judicial Hellholes” for the first time in seven years, but remains on the watch list due to certain ...