The Injustice of Strictly and Literally Making Victims Whole, Such as All Children

[Elliot]

@Eternity

Something I remember about liability and stuff, from Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences:

For all practical purposes, the omnipresent tort tax we pay today was conceived in the 1950s and set in place in the 1960s and 1970s by a new generation of lawyers and judges.

I’m having trouble finding a different quote from the book where he mentions that this was done very fast (for the legal world) and by a few set lawyers.

That’s really interesting to me. I have a low opinion of the current system where many civil cases are very expensive in terms of lawyer bills. But I didn’t guess it was a recent problem. I’m curious who changed it, how, why, what it was like before that, etc.