Are businesses in for a rude awakening in the next legislative session?

More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.

This morning, the presumptive next speaker of the state House, Terrance Carroll, speaks to a breakfast meeting of business owners concerned about liability issues. These tort reformers are concerned about the expansion of lawsuits, and the added cost that brings to consumers and investors.

What Carroll tells them about his agenda will be instructive. Democrats have increasingly run on a platform of supporting business interests, but that goal stands at odds with the need to placate the traditional set of liberal interest groups. That includes trial lawyers who want nothing more than a few new reasons to sue.

It will be necessary for lawmakers to stand on either side of the divide on issues like tort reform. Which camp the new legislative leadership chooses to stand with will mean a lot for the future of our economy.

For FaceThestate.com, I’m Brad Jones.