New "Tort Liability Index"

The nutty Pacific Research Institute just came out with its latest goofy survey of the tort liability situation in these United States, the "U.S. Tort Liability Index:  2008 Report". 

One may gauge the seriousness of the report by how it classifies states -- as "saints", "sinners", "salvageable", and "suckers".  Also by its referring to litigation as "lawsuit 'Whack-a-Mole'".

Blawgletter reviewed last year's version in "Does Tort Litigation Kill People?", which pretty well captures the new one too. 

PRI's answer to the question about a connection between lawsuits the deaths?  Why, yes.  Yes, the very act of litigating a tort claim does cause homicide.

Enjoy!

And yet people actually believe that stuff.