The March 14 issue of BusinessWeek magazine is an interesting study concerning excessive litigation. Good reading for the non-lawyer.
What is clear when the U.S. system is compared with Europe is that the term "excessive litigation" could be replaced by "excessive penalties". I've said it before that I felt the tort system itself was a legitimate process that has simply been abused. It's time to take the abuse out while maintaining the process.
Of course, one must remember that the bias of these articles belongs to BusinessWeek. Nevertheless, there is fire behind this smoke.
