U.S. Tort Reform Liability Index: 2006 Report

Table 8. Ordinal Ranking of State Substantive-Law Rules and Reforms
Rank State Score
1 Texas 23.03653846
2 Michigan 25.40016026
3 Ohio 26.38958333
4 Georgia 26.60833333
5 Colorado 26.88766026
6 Illinois 27.40705128
7 Florida 27.93317308
8 Louisiana 29.27820513
9 New Jersey 29.80881410
10 Utah 30.06233974
11 Arizona 30.75000000
12 Tennessee 31.16282051
13 Alaska 32.76810897
14 Washington 33.50400641
15 North Dakota 33.77211538
16 Idaho 33.89102564
17 Kansas 33.92804487
18 New Hampshire 34.50240385
19 North Carolina 35.24278846
20 Maine 35.43349359
21 West Virginia 35.46153846
22 Indiana 35.47612180
23 Wyoming 35.66907051
24 Kentucky 35.91250000
25 Mississippi 36.04375000
26 Oregon 36.49919872
27 Wisconsin 36.82227564
28 California 37.61314103
29 Alabama 37.68044872
30 Oklahoma 37.72195513
31 Montana 37.79935897
32 Virginia 38.16730769
33 Missouri 38.22676282
34 South Carolina 38.53637821
35 Iowa 39.26778846
36 Nebraska 39.31490385
37 Delaware 39.82532051
38 New York 40.38397436
39 Pennsylvania 40.78445513
40 Nevada 40.81250000
41 Connecticut 41.02900641
42 Arkansas 41.37564103
43 South Dakota 41.55625000
44 Maryland 42.10256410
45 Minnesota 42.65785256
46 Vermont 43.04262821
47 Massachusetts 43.17387821
48 Hawaii 43.85817308
49 New Mexico 44.02644231
50 Rhode Island 47.39519231