Bob Goodlatte: “It is the overload in the courts and the fact that a lot of those cases that were settled were settled for nominal sums…”

“It is the overload in the courts and the fact that a lot of those cases that were settled were settled for nominal sums of money where one party or the other feels the other party was not acting reasonably. This gives a defendant in a case the opportunity to say I am not liable, I am not going to offer settlement, and if I go to court, I am entitled to bring something from somebody who brought a suit against me, made me go to great expense, and they are not having to pay anything because they may or may not have the case on a contingent fee basis.”