California Personal Injury Lawyers - Sacramento Injury Attorneys

Write your representatives to express your disappointment and concern over Congress' "gift" to the Drug Companies: broad drug liability protections.

For decades, asbestos companies knew their product was deadly, but they kept it a secret, killing workers and their families, as well as consumers of their products. The so-called Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act denies justice and fair compensation for the innocent victims of asbestos poisoning.

S. 1761 eliminates the rights of individuals to hold corporations accountable for violating dozens of federal laws and regulations and gives government contractors immunity from civil lawsuits in the clean-up of large scale natural disasters.

Too often, the Food and Drug Administration has fallen down on its responsibility to ensure the safety of drugs and medical devices. Tell your elected officials to protect the life and health of their constituents, and not to take away the right to hold corporations accountable when they cause injury or death to American citizens.

Oppose efforts to dismantle our civil justice system. It's often the only recourse regular Americans like us have against powerful interests who put profits ahead of people.

For decades, asbestos companies knew their product was deadly, but they kept it a secret, killing workers and their families, as well as consumers of their products. And now they want Congress to bail them out. The so-called "Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act" was a bad bill when it came out of committee - and it is changing for the worse as it gets closer to a vote in the Senate.

The wrongly named "Class Action Fairness Act" would give corporate wrongdoers the right to move cases against them to federal court, even when the case is based entirely on state law. Federal courts already have huge backlogs. This bill would only make the situation worse, as Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Judicial Conference of the United States have noted.

Big Business wants Congress to pass class action "reform," but there is no need or demand for this! Both the federal and state judiciaries oppose efforts to federalize state class actions. Class action "reform" is simply about limiting the rights of consumers to seek redress against wrongdoers.

Although the insurance companies weren't successful in their recent attempts to pass a bill capping medical malpractice awards, they will probably be back soon with a similar bill, claiming it will help keep their insurance premiums down for doctors. Since when do insurance companies want to lower their rates? The only time they do that is when the market is competitive and they feel like they are in danger of losing market share.