Republican state Attorneys Basic are assembly in Colorado this weekend, and a serious merchandise on the agenda is what to do concerning the $280 million sitting on the books of the Nationwide Affiliation of Attorneys Basic. We hope they comply with inform NAAG that the cash belongs to the states, to not be stored as a everlasting fund to finance litigation and trial-lawyer riches.
NAAG is a bipartisan discussion board for all state and territory AGs, or at the least it’s imagined to be. However we reported in July on the reliable considerations expressed by eight GOP state AGs, led by Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron, about the way in which NAAG itself is benefiting from tort settlements. The AGs apprehensive that NAAG is changing into a litigation machine in its personal proper, with an agenda extra in tune with the tort bar than with the states AGs characterize.
