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A record number of companies are leaving California for states with a better business climate, and a new report shows that Texas remains their No. 1 destination.

Billing records for more than 30 Texas counties offer a unique window into the practices of lawyers chasing after what could be the biggest fee bonanza since Big Tobacco.

Will self-driving cars end up making our roads more dangerous? More importantly, who will be held responsible when the inevitable happens?

Once a regular on the list, Texas managed to avoid landing a “Judicial Hellhole’ ranking this year, but did secure a “Dishonorable Mention” for dishing out massive damage awards, including the largest in the nation for 2018.

America is getting crushed by courts that have opened the door to lawsuits by adopting fake law, “junk science,” and even litigation “tourism,” with payments reaching $429 billion, or 2.3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, according to a remarkable new report.

Wall Street hedge funds are cashing in on New York’s legal feeding frenzy by financing “mass tort litigation” over prescription drugs and medical devices in exchange for a piece of the action when the cases settle, the “Judicial Hellholes” report reveals.

Forbes’ 13th annual ranking measures six categories for businesses: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. This year, Texas has earned itself the number one spot in the ‘growth prospects’ category, which measures job, income and gross state product growth forecasts over the next five years.

A special master reviewing fee requests from hundreds of law firms in the $1.51 billion settlement with Syngenta has recommended that lead counsel get half the estimated $500 million in legal fees but rejected the idea that attorney Mikal Watts, who represents 60,000 farmers in the deal, should get $150 million.

A Charleston man has filed a lawsuit seeking $700 million over allegations he was told the incorrect cutoff time to play the Powerball lottery in 2017 at a Texas convenience store.

Anyone who has sat within several feet of a television set between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. is bound to have heard the line, soundtracked sometimes by foreboding music, prefaced always with an ominous “Attention.” “If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma …”