Rockefeller Law Center

04/23/2026

Happy Birthday Valentina! Whether it's a few days or a week later, we hope you had a wonderful birthday and that this coming year is filled with happiness, health, and success! RLC

04/15/2026

04/15/2026

Happy Birthday, Olivia! Thank you for spending your special day with us! We are grateful to have you as part of RLC.

11/21/2025

Family Picture 😁

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 👻 from our Paralegas at Rockefeller Law Center.

03/20/2025

Court observation days are such a wonderful learning opportunity for our hardworking support staff. We appreciate these women and all the hard work they do for our clients. ❣️

02/19/2025

Please contact your legislators and tell them you oppose SB 68. This is purportedly a "Tort Reform" piece of legislation and all it does is take away your access to the court system. Tell them: “Please vote NO on SB 68. This tort reform bill protects wrongdoers and will hurt me and my family.” There is a floor vote scheduled for this Friday in the State Senate. You will not regret doing so!

02/08/2025

In a state ranked as one of the top places to do business, what motivates the false claims behind the push to hurt consumer rights? Insurance company greed.

The governor says the proposal will attract business to Georgia, but no business I want. Families who lose a loved one or whose breadwinner is hurt and loses income due to negligence of others or foreseeable violence are the ones who will be hurt. No matter how dire the economy, I know of no one who is so desperate for work that they want businesses in this state that hurt their neighbors just because they can get away with it. “Come to Georgia: You Can Hurt Our Citizens and They Won't Be Able to Do Anything About It” is hardly the slogan we should be using to attract any business we should want.

Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it. In the early 2000s when MedMal insurers claimed wild verdicts were driving huge premium increases and pushing doctors out of needed practice areas, it turned out that the insurers had knowingly grossly underpriced their premiums to grab market share after which the stock market tanked, killing insurers' investment income. Combining underpriced premiums and low investment income made for bad times for the insurers despite absolutely no evidence of abnormally high claims. What do they do? Use blame on trial attorneys to cover the slashing of the rights of those who are already hurting.

In no less of a source than the Wall Street Journal with an article today you can see that continues. The article shows State Farm did the exact same thing for homeowners insurance in California as med mal insurers did years ago. Using unrealistically low premiums, they went on a massive marketing spree to grab market share. "For years it sold policies at premiums it knew were unsustainably low — which allowed it to dominate market share. ... State Farm itself knew its rates were too low for the level of risk it was taking on — and that the risk could overwhelm the company."

When claims from underpriced policies came home to roost, State Farm channeled Casablana's police captain's feigned surprise ("Gambling at Rick's? I am shocked!"), demanded a 20% premium increase in 2023 from regulators due to the completely normal and predictable, er, "unexpected high" claims. They ramped up pressure on the regulators with an announcement that it was cutting off 30,000 homeowners and would cut more without the rate relief. SF got the premium boost, but came back for 30% more in 2024, and filed a request for an additional 22% rate increase this past week.

State Farm, according to the Wall Street Journal, has a surplus of over $100 billion. $100 billion.

But they are stretched? Not even close. And note that the company even carved off California and Florida in its corporate structure to insulate that pile of cash from the claims arising in those places.

At any rate, here is the WSJ article describing the California misadventures of State Farm that the company will doubtlessly try to blame on trial attorneys. Thanks for all you are doing in our leadership to shift this narrative and protect our clients.

The insurer aggressively grew in Los Angeles, despite getting overweight on fire risk, but decided to cut thousands of policies last year, adding to the state’s home-insurance crisis.

02/07/2025

Happy (belated) Birthday to our wonderful legal assistant Corrin!! You are such a wonderful person to have in the office. Your hard work and willingness to help others is appreciated. We hope you have a wonderful day and year!🥳🥳

02/06/2025

The Tort Reform legislation being offered by Gov. Kemp is a misguided attempt to promise us insurance premium relief, while ripping our rights to the courthouse away from us. As currently constructed, the only “winners” are insurance companies and big business owners. Georgians would have theirs rights dramatically eliminated and restricted in seeking Justice. The 7th amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury. That right should not be restricted or eliminated to benefit insurance companies making record profits in a State ranked #1 place to do business 11 years in a row. Sexual assault survivors and families that have lost relatives are among the Georgians that will lose opportunities for justice and accountability.

12/13/2024

Thank you! Happy Hour for the sweet treat!

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween from our paralegals. We hope you all have a spooky and safe Halloween!! 👻