The winners of this year’s American Tort Reform Association “Judicial Hellholes” are:

1. West Virginia
2. South Florida
3. Cook County, Ill.
4. Atlantic County, NJ
5. Montgomery and Macon Counties, Ala.
6. Los Angeles County, CA
7. Clark County (Las Vegas), Nev.

The “watch list” includes Rio Grande Valley/Gulf Coast, Texas; Madison County, Illinois; Baltimore, Maryland; and St. Louis, Missouri.

Overlawyered has the story here.  The original report is here.