Malpractice Reform in SC?

Last Month, some of the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives did a great thing by sponsoring a new bill (H. 3489) that would help bring some needed legal reform to our State. The legislation is a tort reform bill that would help insulate S.C. businesses from all those frivolous lawsuits that we talk oh-so-fondly-of on this blog. Needless to say, I'm a strong supporter of this bill, as pretty much every State in the Union could use some kind of tort reform for a whole host of reasons. However, as you might expect if you know anything about S.C. politics, the bill has run into some problems up at the Statehouse.

As per the legislative process, it was sent to one of the House's subcommittees; unfortunately, all but one of the members of this subcommittee just happen to be lawyers. Consequently, the members of this subcommittee haven't bothered to get the legislative process for the tort reform bill going; preferring, instead, to leave it swimming in the abyss that is Subcommittee Hell

Lawyers opposed to meaningful tort reform; you're shocked, I'm sure.

Anyways, here's the legislation's sponsors' site - One Law Suit Away - so you can go read up on the bill and see (for those of you in South Carolina) if your State Legislator comes down on the right side of it.