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New Video Offers Solutions For TCPA Reform

Enacted in 1991, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was designed to keep Americans from those pesky telemarketing calls at the most inconvenient times by restricting the use of autodialers and prerecorded messages. Fast forward to today, when new technology grows old at the blink of an eye and almost anything can be considered an autodialer. Yet that same law from 1991 still regulates the space and keeps generating thousands of

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Tennessee Enacts Nation's First Law to Curb Deceptive Trial Lawyer Ads

By Harold Kim, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform Tennessee lived up to its ‘America at its Best’ slogan this week by enacting the nation’s first law to curb deceptive trial lawyer ads targeting prescription drugs and medical devices. As anyone who watches TV or goes online likely knows, plaintiffs’ lawyers aggressively market such ads to scare consumers—many times senior citizens—into filing lawsuits. Trial lawyers spent almost $1

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FL House Acts to Curb Abusive Lawsuits that Drive Up Insurance Rates

By Harold Kim, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform Floridians have paid $1.6 billion more for insurance over the past decade than consumers in other states, thanks to the state’s unique law called Assignment of Benefits, or AOB. But after a decade of trying, that may be about the change. A bill on the move in the state legislature could put the brakes on a law that has been a

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U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform | October 24, 2018

Keynote Luncheon:  Perspectives from the World’s First Digital Human

Rachel, the World’s First Digital Human and Richard Darden, Distinguished Engineer
Watson Implementations Public Sector Global Delivery, IBM

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