AM Show Hr 3 | Has Texas Tort Reform Gone Too Far?
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.6 | It's that time. |
| 0:11.6 | Lock and load. |
| 0:14.9 | The Michael Vary Show is on the air. |
| 0:30.1 | If only every issue was cut and dry. |
| 0:32.6 | If only it was so simple, |
| 0:40.6 | spent almost the entirety of my adult life focused on tort reform in Texas. |
| 0:47.4 | Limiting ambulance chasers, limiting frivolous lawsuits. |
| 0:49.0 | I think they're bad for businesses. |
| 0:51.0 | I think they drove doctors out of our state. |
| 0:54.6 | I think they drove business away. I think they drove business away. |
| 1:03.3 | I think they drove up insurance costs when individuals, when companies were sued frivolously. |
| 1:06.6 | And then the pendulum swung the other way. |
| 1:07.5 | Did it go too far? |
| 1:08.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:09.4 | That's the conversation today. |
| 1:17.5 | It was long the case that the plaintiff's lawyers were the largest, and may still be, |
| 1:22.3 | financiers of the Democrat Party, the largest donors to the Democrat Party. |
| 1:28.9 | But something started happening, oh, 10, 15 years ago, and it has accelerated. |
| 1:34.2 | I started seeing prominent plaintiffs attorneys who were confirmed Republicans, |
| 1:37.0 | usually very socially conservative Republicans. |
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