As previously reported, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and LABI (the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry) went to the well for big insurance and big business in Louisiana recently, attacking the Louisiana Attorney General's right to retain outside counsel to sue Big Business members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, limiting local government rights to sue polluters (including putting the kibosh on existing lawsuits to clean up the Bayou's coastline and marshlands), and thwarting a consumer protection bill, adding protections for consumer legal funding, that would have mainstreamed the ability of Louisiana citizens to sell off fractional interests in their personal injury claims against big insurance.
I wrote about these aggressive actions to tilt the playing field even more in the favor of these special interests in the recently concluded Louisiana General Assembly in my last diary, Louisiana Assembly caters to Big Business and Big Insurance over Louisiana Citizens
The Bayou Buzz did a nice job of further detailing these brazen actions by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and LABI in the following article:
Bobby Jindal attacks frivolous lawsuits accepts special interest money