Corporate lawyers think Mississippi is the worst state to try a liability case, according to a Harris survey released yesterday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
That fact was one of many to emerge from the Chamber's "States Liability Systems Ranking Study," which surveyed 824 senior corporate attorneys and found that 57 percent of those polled rated the U.S. state court liability system as fair or poor.
Seventy-eight percent in the survey said the state's litigation environment could affect decisions such as where to locate or do business.
An insurance trade organization was quick to react to that number. "These findings provide yet another rationale for states to pay as much attention to the quality of their liability environment as they do to their state's transportation infrastructure, tax structure and education system," said David Snyder,
