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Personal Injury and “Tort” Cases Are Declining In FY 1991 Colorado District Courts handled · 6,054 personal injury case filings · 6,295 “tort” case filings. In FY 2003 – despite enormous population growth – District Courts handled · 5,779 personal injury case filings · 5,986 “tort” case filings. Further details are available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website : In the 17 states with data on “tort” and “contract” filings, “tort” filings fell 5% during the decade while “contract” filings grew 22%. Further details are available at the NCSC CSP website : If courts are drowning in contract cases (typically filed concerning some legal violation by a business), why are so-called court reformers focusing their efforts only on what they call tort “reform”? |