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Litigation Shouldn’t Be Necessary - But It Is, and Our Founders Knew It

By Joe Consumer | Wednesday, Nov 6, 2019 @ 11:50am

Very few injured Americans file lawsuits. Granted it’s been awhile since anyone took an empirical look at the numbers, but when Rand’s Institute for Civil Justice did so 1991, researchers found that only 2 percent of injured Americans file lawsuits. The National Center for State Courts recently provided another perspective: “Tort cases garner a great deal of public interest but generally account for only about 4 percent of [state court] Civil caseloads….”