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- Tort reform in Okla. hopes die with session
- Another year, another failed attempt at tort reform. Republican leaders in the state Senate and House of Representatives began the year listing tort reform as one of their top priorities for the 2007 session - just as they did at the beginning of the 2006, 2005 and...
- Research articles 2007-05-29
- RETHINKING THE LANDSCAPE OF TORT REFORM: LEGISLATIVE INERTIA AND COURT-BASED TORT REFORM IN THE CASE OF ASBESTOS*
- On its face, the asbestos case seems a quintessential example of the obstacles to enacting major tort reform in the United States, even when judges repeatedly ask for legislative relief and tort law is demonstrably costly and inconsistent. However, a closer look reveak that, since the early 1980s, judges and...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Tort reform bill heads to Oklahoma governor's desk
- In passing the most extensive tort reform bill ever to be approved by the Oklahoma Legislature, members of the state Senate on Thursday quoted heavily from past speeches of the one person that now has the power to stop the measure from becoming law - Gov. Brad Henry. ...
- Research articles 2007-04-20
- Republican tort reform bill still unheard Oklahoma Senate committee
- Even Senate Co-President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee doesn't believe his 182-page tort reform bill, Senate Bill 802, could be approved by the Legislature and signed into law in its original form. But he still expects to get several of the bill's provisions passed into law this year. ...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Discretionary Function Exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act: A Proposal for a Workable Analysis, The
- I. INTRODUCTION In 1946 Congress enacted the Federal Tort Claims Act FTCA, which provides that the federal government can be held liable in tort "in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances."1 In enacting the FTCA, Congress also provided thirteen exceptions to...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Senate race gets ugly in mailings.(News)
- Byline: Andrew Schroedter Daily Herald Staff Writer It became more expensive in January to send a letter through the mail. But that additional cost hasn't stopped Palatine Mayor Rita Mullins and Harper College Trustee Matt Murphy from crowding mailboxes this week...
- Research articles 2006-03-17
- MO Court of Appeals rules severance of tort, uninsured motorist
- (This article was originally published in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, St. Louis, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) A trial court's severance of tort and uninsured motorist claims arising from an auto accident was an abuse of discretion, the Missouri Court of Appeals held. The court found that splitting the...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- Battle Begins to Stop Specter From Taking Judiciary Chair
- Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) is scrambling to rescue his campaign for chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a job that seemed to be his until he made an inflammatory remark about pro-life judges just after the election.While Specter's rehabilitation efforts have been met with ominous silence by most key Senate...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- The good guys: tort reformers complain about "frivolous" lawsuits. But at a time when government has stopped protecting citizens, trial lawyers have become the regulators of last resort.
- ON JULY 5, JOHN EDWARDS SLIPPED INTO A HIGH-RISE AT One Boston Place to greet some of his and John Kerry's top contributors among plaintiffs' attorneys. At the offices of Robinson & Cole, Edwards shook hands with Alex MacDonald, a partner there who had helped raise...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- False alarm: how the media helps the insurance industry and the GOP promote the myth of America's "lawsuit crisis."
- Last December, Newsweek featured a cover package by Stuart Taylor and Evan Thomas that blared: "Lawsuit Hell: Doctors. Teachers. Coaches. Ministers. They all share a common fear: being sued on the job." Paired with a weeklong tie-in on NBC News and online chats on MSNBC.com, the article claimed that because...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Follow the money: big business funnels millions through seemingly benevolent organizations to fund tort 'reform' efforts. These groups' motives are anything but benign.
- In an age when corporate accounting scandals have taken center stage, and the most talked-about litigation involves such Fortune 500 firms as Firestone, Exxon, and McDonald's, it is easy to see the fight over the civil justice system as pitting trial lawyers against big business. Lawsuits...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Barbour vows comprehensive tort reform in 2004
- Gov. Haley Barbour is determined to see state lawmakers pass comprehensive tort reform this year so Mississippi can end lawsuit abuse. "I have proposed legislation that the Senate passed by more than a 2-1 majority, and I believe a majority of the members of the House support comprehensive tort reform,"...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- Tort reform iron won't get hotter.(Tort reform law)
- Byline: Mark A. Hofmann The window of opportunity for advocates of federal tort reform opened a little wider, courtesy of last week's elections. They would be well advised to take advantage of that window as quickly as they can, too, because it's ...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Medical Malpractice: Implications of Rising Premiums on Access to Health Care.
- GAO-03-836 August 8, 2003 The recent rising cost of medical malpractice insurance premiums in many states has reportedly influenced some physicians to move or close practices, reduce high-risk services, or alter their practices to preclude potential lawsuits known as defensive medicine practices. States have revised tort laws under...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- GOP Pushes Tort Reform in Colorado.
- By Arthur Kane, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 6--A flurry of bills to limit lawsuits and damage awards is flying through the legislature in a concerted effort that's stayed mostly under the radar. The 11 bills and...
- Research articles 2003-04-06
- Torts, tax reporting, and preemption: Is there tort liability for incorrect information reports?
- I. INTRODUCTIONThis Article explores the answer to what seems to be a simple and straightforward question, a question one would expect to have a relatively simple answer. The question is whether damages may be recovered from a negligent issuer of an incorrect federal tax information return?1 If one receives a...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Mississippi Legislators Hung Up on Proposed Tort Reforms.
- By Joey Bunch, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 13--JACKSON, Miss.--The approaching demise of this legislative session should come as no surprise. The effort to change the state's civil court system was on life-support long...
- Research articles 2002-09-13
- new federalism jurisprudence and national tort reform, The
- I. Introduction and punitive damages.4 In addition, the Common Sense Product Liability Legal Reform Act of 1996(5) avoided enactment only by a presidential veto. confer jurisdiction on the federal courts to hear many state law class actions on the basis of minimal diversity.10 Some have suggested that federal law, not...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- OK Senate pushes tort reform, tax-cut bills into committee
- The state Senate voted Tuesday to send tax cuts and tort reform measures to conference committees - a move Democrats say will lead to compromise and Republicans fear will lead to the measures' death.
- Research articles 2006-05-10
- House should approve LARA.(Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, tort reform )(Editorial)
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES appears likely to approve meaningful tort reform in the next few days. We hope that it will do so by such a margin that the Senate will be compelled to follow suit. The measure-the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act-is straigh THE...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
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