litigiously

litigious | Business English

litigious
adjective
uk /lɪˈtɪdʒəs/us
too ready to take disagreements to a court of law so that a legal decision can be made about them:
litigious society/cultureWe live in an increasingly litigious society.

litigiousness

noun[ U ]
The litigiousness of many patients makes insurance for doctors extremely expensive.

Examples of litigious

litigious
A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
This functional justice may have been generally acceptable to litigious mariners.
Local magistrates, for their part, abhorred the litigious society.
I have cited figures illustrating the litigious trend, but they were those gathered under ordinary circumstances.
They are highly quality conscious and perhaps litigious in nature.
Unfortunately in an increasingly litigious time, ethics committees actively discourage researchers asking fathers if they knew that their putative offspring was not really their own.
With new developments such an increasingly litigious society and more emphasis on the rights of research participants this is a particularly relevant section.
However, this kind of resistance could also take on a less litigious form.
In the litigious society in which we live, healthcare decisions always have the possibility of winding up in a courtroom.
And, in any case, in a litigious age such appraisals are unlikely to be anything but anodyne.
Given the litigious society we cohabitate, avoiding mistakes is the key to sound risk management.
The political structures of both federal centers encourage an adversarial, litigious approach to regulation that serves to constrain states.
Rather than frustration at having failed to eradicate litigation masters and amend the litigious trend, there is a sense of resignation in his voice.
Freetown might have been a small town but as a society it was both complex and litigious.
His orderly, almost litigious, manner makes him appear cranky, except when enjoying a joke at the expense of his foe.
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