...There are other, more serious costs and not just in health care, according to “Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America’s Tort System,” a new study from the conservative Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. The study is the most comprehensive ever done on the direct and indirect costs of allowing personal liability lawyers virtual free rein in our courts in recent decades, according to the PRI. Among the other health care costs calculated by the PRI are an estimated 3.4 million people who can’t get insurance because of excessive premiums and, worst of all, 114,000 people who “would be...