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If you believe the most extreme climate change activists and a handful of liberal mayors in California and around the country, they have a solution to global warming all figured out. Unfortunately, their remedy is yet another effort to abuse the law, our courts, and make billions while they’re at it.

Volunteering for the benefit of the community is something that the state deems to be worthy of protection. The Texas Charitable Immunity and Liability Act was enacted years ago to encourage volunteerism. People who are worried that their volunteer actions will be repaid with a lawsuit and liability find relief in this law.

The act protects volunteers at a non-profit agency from liability if something goes wrong – but only if the agency and volunteer meet all the legal qualifications.

The latest wave of state lawsuits over the opioid crisis illustrates sharp differences emerging in how governments litigate these cases, both in whom they choose to sue and whether private lawyers stand to get a piece of the action.

Private equity and hedge funds have found a new way to get richer: Financing lawsuits in exchange for a cut of the winnings.

Legislative moves to restrict legal broadcast advertising in California are now with the Senate, where a bill sits after passing in the Assembly.

A bankrupt ambulance-chaser scammed more than $200,000 from a cash-advance company that did business with her clients, a new Manhattan lawsuit charges.

Two South Florida McDonald’s customers are accusing the fast food giant of forcing them to pay for Quarter Pounders with Cheese when they only wanted plain Quarter Pounders.

No matter the time of year, it is always trial lawyer season in Texas. But one particular type of trial lawyer — the storm chaser — is especially prevalent these days.

Never ones to pass up an opportunity to make a buck off their fellow Texans, storm-chasing lawyers have been swooping into Texas communities after hail storms and hurricanes for a decade, scamming property owners into filing lawsuits that will allow them to skim massive lawyers’ fees off the top.

A former San Antonio lawyer will be spending the next six years of his life in prison after federal investigators alleged that he created fake Texas court rulings to dupe a pair of clients into believing he’d won their case and converted another client’s $2.4 million trust fund for his own personal use.

It sounded like an old school slip-and-fall scam with a modern-day financial twist.

Neighborhood scouts lined up victims willing to fall in potholes or deliberately trip outside of restaurants, bodegas and dry cleaners. Doctors treated patients for broken limbs, busted knees and internal injuries, including some that were fake. Sometimes they performed unnecessary procedures that drove up the potential value of the personal injury lawsuits that followed.