As always, thank you for your detailed comments. The question I was trying to get out was: Is there a way to help curb the frivolous lawsuits so prevalent in the US today? You mentioned special statutes to allow fee recovery in some cases. Do these rules actually help in the case of Joe Blow being sued by Megacorp?

For myself, I would almost certainly rollover at the first whiff of a lawsuit against me personally because I have neither the time nor money to fight it. BigCorp vs BigCorp is far less interesting to me than MegaCorp vs LittleGuy, because I certainly qualify as LittleGuy.