La. on Forbes’ list of worst places to get sued

• Advocate business staff
• Published: Apr 7, 2008 - UPDATED: 2 p.m.

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An article posted today on Forbes.com lists Louisiana and the Gulf Coast as among the worst states in which to be sued.

“There is a high degree of stability in what most people think are the most problematic places to get sued,” Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The Rule of Lawyers,” tells Forbes. “If you put pins on a map for the top 50 most outrageous verdicts, bizarre run-away juries and so forth, you would find this belt around the Gulf Coast that runs from southern Texas across Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. These are also some of the places people consider the worst places to get sued.”