President Trump calls a spade a spade — and when Big Insurance and their Lobbyists tried to pass so-called “Tort Reform” legislation in Florida in 2023, President Trump called it “the worst insurance scam in the entire country” and slammed the bill for being a “bailout” to Big Insurance.

Donald Trump Jr., like his father President Trump, believes that RINO politicians should never cave to corporate interests instead of serving constituents. On February 11, 2025, he voiced his opposition to S.244 on Twitter, calling the bill “a complete disaster” and adding that he hoped “the [South Carolina] legislature gets smart and strikes this down!”

In an in-depth recent piece covering the financial power and recent profitability growth at some of the country’s largest insurance corporations, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that premiums were soaring for individual customers, while the Big Insurance companies themselves were continuing to climb to record profits.

We don’t need “tort reform” that hurts everyday people and makes it harder for them to negotiate with their insurance companies — we need Insurance Reform!

Brian Hicks of the Post & Courier pointed out the foolishness of passing “tort reform” that doesn’t actually reform the way insurance works in South Carolina — he called last year’s version of this bill something that “wasn’t justice for responsible bars and restaurants. Nothing in that bill reduced their insurance rates. It would’ve simply reduced payouts that insurance companies have to pay victims of drunken drivers.”

Steven Burritt, the Executive Director of M.A.D.D. South Carolina, spoke out against an earlier version of this bill, rightly pointing out that trying to help bar owners without maintaining protections for victims of DUI’s is the WRONG way to go about liquor liability reform.

DUI deaths in South Carolina are up 31% since 2017. And any legislation that puts Big Insurance first and helps their profitability at the expense of victims is legislation that fails constituents and puts profits over people.

Smart South Carolinians know that we can look to other states to see what works and what doesn’t. And that’s why Louisiana’s example is so powerful — when their state legislature passed so-called “tort reform” in 2020, the bill utterly “failed to lower premiums as its supporters promised.” And that is why MAGA Governor Jeff Landry blasted the legislation as bad for Louisiana’s citizens.