Excessive litigation increases costs throughout the supply chain and across the economy. Litigation costs send insurance premiums skyrocketing, inflate the price of goods and services, frighten innovators from introducing new products, and undermine job growth and economic development. If policymakers are truly interested in building a more affordable New York, they should set their sights on reining in the Empire State’s notoriously litigious environment. Unfortunately, lawmakers continue to introduce bills that would make it easier — and more profitable — to sue.

As part of this effort to build a more litigious New York, legislators are increasingly adding private rights of action to the measures they introduce. These provisions — legal mechanisms that allow trial attorneys to cash in o

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