“Every plaintiff wants to file in Philadelphia and every defendant wants to stay out of Philadelphia at all costs.”
PCCJR Executive Director Curt Schroder was recently featured in a video focusing in on the Pennsylvania city’s 2017-2018 designation as a “Judicial Hellhole” by the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA). “I always say the fastest growing part of the economy in Philadelphia is litigation tourism.” That is exactly what landed the “City of Unbrotherly Torts” back on the ATRA list of shame after out-of-state mass tort filings surged, along with multi-million dollar verdicts.