There are worse states for business suits

Kansas isn’t a bad place for a business to be sued, coming in at No. 13 in the Institute for Legal Reform’s latest ranking of state lawsuit climates. Kansas has moved up three places in two years, according to the survey conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, because of improved perceptions of judges’ impartiality and competence, and handling of scientific and technical evidence, among other things. And for judges’ competence and juries’ predictability, Kansas came in fifth. Overall, West Virginia was deemed worst, Delaware best. Nebraska and Iowa were third and fourth, respectively.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. Kev
    Posted August 27, 2007 at 6:05 am | Permalink

    I don’t know about Kansas being a good place for “business suits”. I often find much better suits at the warehouse stores in Chicago at lower prices!

  2. The Eagle sucks
    Posted August 27, 2007 at 6:50 am | Permalink

    What’s the point of this drivel? Oh well,at least it’s not the drooling spittle laced hate-mongering our local bitch of Belsen usually peddles.

  3. The Eagle sucks
    Posted August 27, 2007 at 9:07 am | Permalink

    No hate-mongering and Rhonda’s pals don’t write. What a surprise. You should have thrown them your usual skin the fundies red meat Ms. Belsen.

  4. Kansas
    Posted August 27, 2007 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    If one actually reads the methodology report, you have to question the objectiveness of the survey.

    The final paragraph in the Methodology states -

    “In conclusion, one important point to note is that these rankings and results are based on the perceptions of these senior corporate attorneys. It is also important to realize that the perceptions may be based on certain cities or counties within the state. But, as we have noted in the past, perception does become linked with reality. If the states can change the way litigators and others perceive their liability systems, we may find considerable movement in their rankings in the future. Once these perceptions change, the overall business environment may be deemed more hospitable as well.”

    Also, earlier under methodologies was this -

    “In order to achieve high respondent participation, in addition to the alert letters, numerous telephone callbacks were made in order to reach the respondent and conduct the interview at a convenient time for the respondent.

    Once a qualified respondent was identified, the respondent was first asked about his/her familiarity with several states.”

    In short, if an attorney lost in that state, the state was unfair. :)

    Also, it appears if they didn’t like the opinion of the attorney, the surveyors kept shopping until they found one they liked.

    What an objective survey? NOT!

  5. Bill McKean
    Posted August 28, 2007 at 2:58 am | Permalink

    IS RHONDA REALLY A PUPPET FOR THE CORRUPT WICHITA BAR ASSOCIATION?

    Am I the only reader that often wonders if Rhonda comes up with her own ideas for her blogs?

    It’s interesting that the survey that Rhonda referencd was published over 4 months ago. It’ not like this is breaking news. I suspect that the Eagle’s propaganda mill is hard at work to prop up the image of our corrupt district court judges. I wonder if the apologists at the Appleseed Foundation (Foulston Seifkin attorney, Jack Focht or Hite Fanning attorney, Gaye Tibbetts) feed these ideas to Rhonda.

    After all, the public doesn’t need to know about Judge Burgess routinely covering up child sexual abuse cases in his juvenile courts or the other outrageous types of civil rights violations that occur on a routine basis in the family law courts. The Eagle must protect and promote our elitist community leaders & graduates from our Chamber of Commerce & Kansas Health Foundation courses and their cronies and spouses from Eastborough, WSU, the WBA and the Chamber of Commerce. It’s too important to keep that state & federal grant money coming in to Wichita to finance the out of control non-profit do-gooder organizations that have absolutely no accountability. The Eagle needs to make sure that there is something to make our Junior Leaguers to feel important and stay busy. I just hope that there are enough museum or non-profit board membeships for everyone. After all ax payer’s money is no object when the public image of Wichita’s elitist class needs to be promoted.

    Bill McKean kiakahahaha@yahoo.com

    http://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/media/pressreleases/20070425_HP_national.cfm