On April 1, Judge Richard Posner attempted to refute the findings of PRI's study Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System on the Becker-Posner Blog. [See: Is the Tort System Costing the United States $865 Billion a Year?--Posner, April 1, 2007.]

Judge Posner's comments, while a serious attempt to refute the study on the merits of the report, were riddled with errors ranging from misreadings, false accusations, inaccurate citations, to untrue claims.

What follows is our response to Judge Posner's comments in a point-by-point format. It reveals what we believe to be poor reading/comprehension of our report and a clear misrepresentation of our methodology. Despite the claim made by Judge Posner, our results are far from ficticious.