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Consumer Legal Funding Is Not Third-Party Litigation Financing, and It Is Clearly Not Responsible for a "Tort Tax"

Eric Schuller of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding argues that consumer legal funding should be regulated separately from commercial third-party litigation finance because it provides modest, non-recourse advances to injured consumers for living expenses rather than financing litigation, directing case strategy or creating an alleged “tort tax”.