NYC’s ‘judicial hellhole’ bloat cost taxpayers $96B, and Zohran Mamdani could make things worse: report
Story by Peter Senzamici • 21h
New York’s legal bloat cost taxpayers and businesses a whopping $96.3 billion last year in excessive litigation — and reformers fear Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration could make it worse.
Trial lawyers are abusing and defrauding the state court system, turning it into a “national embarrassment,” according to a new report by the group American Tort Reform Association.
“We’re seeing staged car crashes, slip-and-fall schemes, and even unnecessary medical procedures — all orchestrated by unethical lawyers and corrupt doctors who prey on vulnerable people,” said Tiger Joyce, president of the ATRA, in a statement.
“When judges allow these practices to flourish and lawmakers refuse to act, honest New Yorkers foot the bill for the city’s Judicial Hellhole reputation.”
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