Stephanie Mencimer

It’s the Injuries, Stupid

Cross-posted from The Tortellini

For the past few years, the insurance consulting firm Tillinghast has released an annual study purporting to tabulate the cost of the tort system to the American economy. The latest one came last week. I hate this study, and various people have taken whacks at it for its methodology, for different reasons. I won’t rehash all that here (follow the links if you want more). What bugs me about this stupid study, besides that it’s meaningless, is that it’s never accompanied by any acknowledgment that there would be no tort costs if there weren’t any accidents. (keep reading)

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