Protecting Texas Businesses from Unfair Litigation
Today, every Texas industry is facing the threat of abusive lawsuits. Runaway lawsuits are placing Texas businesses of all sizes, across all sectors in an extremely tenuous position. Texas job creators are being forced to raise prices, lay off employees or close their doors – ultimately harming the Texans these businesses serve every day. The abuse must stop.
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LSEA Urges Texas Lawmakers to Pass SB 30
SB 30 arms juries with market-based evidence about the true value of medical services. By uniformly providing relevant information to juries, fairer trials will be held in courtrooms across Texas, preventing unjustified damage awards and alleviating the vehicle insurance crisis that confronts every business in Texas, from the smallest to the largest.
SB 30 primarily does two things: 1) sets out what evidence may be offered in a personal injury or wrongful death trial to prove the reasonableness of health care expenses; 2) and establishes what evidence must be disclosed and/or produced by the parties and admitted into evidence at trial. Below are the essential provisions of SB 30.
Under SB 30, the court must allow the following evidence as to each medical service, supply, or device provided to the plaintiff:
- The Medicare allowable amount.
- The workers’ compensation maximum reimbursement amount.
- The 50th percentile of payments by private payors in the same geographic area.
- The specific medical provider’s:
- collected amounts
- contracted rates, and
- billed charges.
SB 30 requires that the plaintiff provide the defendant:
- The name of the person who referred the plaintiff to each healthcare provider, as well as the name of each healthcare provider who treated the plaintiff for the injury at hand.
- All agreements between the plaintiff’s lawyers and the healthcare providers.
SB 30 requires a healthcare provider who treated the plaintiff for the injury at hand under a letter of protection to provide:
- The number of patients the lawyers referred to the providers in the past two years.
- The amount of money the lawyers paid to the providers in the past two years.
LSEA Day at the Texas State Capitol
Members of the Lone Star Economic Alliance converged at the Texas State Capitol on March 11 to urge Texas lawmakers to pass meaningful reforms in SB 30 that will put an end to the unfair litigation tactics threatening Texas’s prosperous economy – the eighth largest in the world. LSEA advocates for policies that ensure employers can continue to create jobs and safely provide the goods and services that are essential to Texas families. LSEA is comprised of nearly 1,200 Texas job creators, associations and individuals who share a common mission: to curtail the skyrocketing cost of doing business by exposing unfair litigation practices and their impact on
the jobs and businesses that fuel our economy.
LSEA Day – 60-Second Reel
LSEA Day at the Capitol – March 11, 2025
LSEA Day at the Capitol – March 11, 2025
LSEA Day at the Capitol – March 11, 2025
LSEA Day at the Capitol – March 11, 2025
Nuclear Verdicts in Texas: Worst in the Nation
Since 2009, Texas has experienced more “nuclear verdicts” – verdicts of $10 million or more – than any other state, costing Texas job creators more than $45 billion. The explosion of nuclear verdicts is not only increasing the cost of doing business in Texas, but also endangering the Texas economy.
