Opinions
The Inflation Reduction Act needs a closer look
With little time remaining, I am urging Missouri’s business community to take a closer look at the Inflation Reduction Act currently being rushed through Congress.
Missouri must adopt fair period to file personal injury lawsuits
The Missouri legislature has made progress in addressing the state’s reputation for frivolous claims, junk science, and jackpot verdicts.
The Missouri legislature’s check on runaway verdicts
This ruling is important because it provides a clear pathway for the General Assembly and governor to fix excessive liability that harms people’s lives.
One year later: Missouri must stop the trial attorney COVID cash-in
It’s now been one year since coronavirus arrived in Missouri. The first confirmed case was announced by Gov. Mike Parson on March 7, 2020.
This governor puts his money where his mouth is
Missouri, did you happen to watch the big speech on January 27?
Judges must fulfill promise of new punitive damages law
Soon, Governor Mike Parson is expected to sign into law significant reforms regarding the treatment of punitive damages in civil lawsuits in Missouri. The legislature included these reforms in a package of initiatives to improve the state’s civil justice system
Stopping the opioid crisis begins with stopping Mexican cartels and Chinese drug smugglers
The opioid epidemic is a frightening reality that is affecting thousands of families across the country. Drug overdoses killed a jaw dropping 72,300 people in 2017.
Scaremongering lawyers should be disciplined
Lawyers running anti-drug commercials should be held accountable for their claims. If they can’t substantiate those claims, they should be forced to compensate the companies whose sales they’ve depressed and the drug users whose health they’ve impaired.
Opioid regulator Joe Rannazzisi, hero or villain?
What if Big Pharma is not to blame for the opioid crisis? What if it wasn’t the big bad drug companies that created and exacerbated the problem, but the politicians and government officials pretending to be the good guys?
Is parental incompetence partly to blame for teen vaping injuries?
There’s a classic scene in an episode of the 1970s BBC comedy Fawlty Towers in which a diner complains about the bad service provided by the waiter at this quaint seaside inn in southern England.
Reaction to J&J verdict: 'Distorts public nuisance law beyond recognition'
Today’s verdict by Judge Thad Balkman that Johnson & Johnson must pay the operating costs of Oklahoma state government as penance for the opioid crisis puts manufacturers of all lawful, but politically unpopular, products at risk.
State Attorneys General should oversee opioid litigation
Do we want justice or a quick jackpot for trial attorneys? The negotiation class leads to the latter. And, more important, it’s unconstitutional and unfair. The states and their attorneys general are the parties empowered to protect the rights and welfare of their citizens.
Missouri chamber throws support behind transportation measure
The Missouri Senate is looking to overhaul the resources used in infrastructure through Senate Concurrent Resolution 14, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Dave Schatz.
Missouri may weather storm over law prohibiting meat label on plant-based products, attorney says
Missouri has found itself thrust into part of a contentious national debate over whether plant-based foods can be marketed or packaged as an alternative to meat.
Attorney who filed suit against nonprofit over 'dark money' says he plans to run for attorney general
Elad Gross, a Missouri-based attorney who filed lawsuits against the governor's office and a nonprofit organization alleging they were withholding information that should be accessible to the public, says he will be running for attorney general.
Missouri Corrections Officers Association not expecting appeal to change $113 million award in pay dispute
Some 13,000 corrections officers involved in a class-action lawsuit that alleged they were required to do work before and after their shifts but weren't paid for the work are awaiting settlements after a jury in Coles County Circuit Court awarded $113 million in the case, and taxpayers are on the hook for even more as the jurors added 9 percent interest on the payout.