American Tort Reform Foundation still a 'hellhole'

by: Carnacki

Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 09:56:42 AM EST

The American Tort Reform Foundation remains the worst "hellhole" of wingnut tort reform foundations, according to a new report by West Virginia Blue.

Every year since 2004, the American Tort Reform Foundation has ranked as having the nation's worst wingnuts involved in tort reform propaganda.

"Until American Tort Reform Foundation adopts systemic reforms or shows consistent evidence of fair rulings, it is unlikely to shed its reputation as a proganda campaign by large companies eager to avoid legal responsibility for their violations," the West Virginia Blue report states.

West Virginia Blue also agreed with everything that Timothy C. Bailey, president of the West Virginia Association for Justice, said about the American Tort Reform Foundation.

"ATRA was created expressly for the purpose of lobbying for immunity when corporations break the law. It is continuing its unrelenting attach on West Virginia and our civil justice system because our courts are the one place where these corporate wrongdoers can still be held accountable for their negligence and misconduct."