Nearly 54,000 auto glass lawsuits were filed in Florida during the first three quarters of 2023 despite the passage of recent legal reform measures, far outpacing the level of such litigation in any recent year, new data shows.

But that spike in the lawsuits is not surprising given how two legal reform measures passed earlier this year were worded, according to Tallahassee attorney Ashley Kalifeh, who has monitored auto glass lawsuit statistics for the Florida Justice Reform Institute. So far this year, 53,816 lawsuits were filed – most of them by a small number of attorneys – according to Kalifeh, and that compares to just under 35,000 in 2022.

In the second quarter of this year, 10 Florida lawyers generated more than 21,000 lawsuits, or about 86% of all auto glass lawsuits filed during the April-through-June time period.