"plague of lawsuits"?

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Former California Governor Pete Wilson decried a "plague of lawsuits" and claimed that in 1991, there were seven lawsuits filed every minute of every hour of every working day in the year. Rhetoric aside, the cold hard facts for California are the following:

Thus, you can see that there is not a glut of lawsuits clogging our courts compared to ten years ago.

Moreover, personal injury jury trials numbered 1,800 in the State of California in 1994-95, down 14% from the previous reporting period. In 1994-95, there were 8,882,123 cases filed in all courts, down 5% from the previous reporting period. Thus only 1,800 jury trials resulted from the nearly 9 million cases filed. Meanwhile, Superior Court civil petitions, cases involving child support, domestic violence, adoption, etc., dramatically escalated 24%. Insurance companies and corporations are not advocating limiting family law cases, they want only to limit personal injury actions so the insurance companies and corporations will not have to take responsibility.