What happened: Protecting American Consumers Together (PACT) has launched a major TV and radio ad campaign in Texas to support lawsuit abuse reform and to highlight the impact of abusive litigation on consumer costs and the state’s economy. 

Remind me: PACT is a national advocacy group that launched ads in Texas in late March to raise awareness of the consumers impacted by inflated costs, hidden fees and questionable tactics used by certain personal injury lawyers.

Tell me more: PACT’s new seven-figure, statewide ad campaign – “Strong” – highlights the need to “pass reform to end lawsuit abuse that hurts consumers, drives up everyday costs for all Texans, and fundamentally threatens the state’s strong economy.”

• The ads follow the March 31 Senate State Affairs Committee hearing on SB 30, which exposed “the systemic approach some personal injury lawyers take to abuse their clients and drive up costs for all Texans.”

TLR Thoughts: Texas boasts the world’s eighth largest economy but is overdue for reforms that will rein in trial lawyer abuses and help restore fairness and transparency to Texas’s courts. Notably, SB 30 will help curb abusive lawsuits by: (1) encouraging doctors to treat accident victims; (2) stopping the manipulation and inflation of medical damages; and (3) educating jurors on noneconomic damages by providing clear standards and definitions.

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