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Tort Crisis Overblown, Tillinghast Studies Faulty, Claims Think Tank
National News • May 17, 2005
There is no credible evidence to link the tort system either to the economic ills its critics claim or to the benefits they argue would be produced by altering it, according to a new study by the ...
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| Omar, you did miss the point...again | Ross | May 23, 2005, 4:50 pm |
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| RE: You are missing the point Omar. | Omar is not missing anything | May 19, 2005, 2:26 pm |
| RE: You are missing the point Omar. | Omar Aboulhosn | May 19, 2005, 1:22 pm |
| You are missing the point Omar. | Long Time Observer | May 19, 2005, 1:10 pm |
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| The Company You Keep...as Far Away as Possible | Natty Bumppo | May 18, 2005, 7:23 pm |
| insurance 101 | frank | May 18, 2005, 3:53 pm |
| Tort Reform | Jon L. Shebel | May 18, 2005, 3:49 pm |
| Tort Reform Resistence | John Morrison | May 18, 2005, 3:48 pm |
| Sugery?what is sugery?new medical profession? | Dirty handed docter | May 18, 2005, 3:18 pm |
| After Sugery | Just Wait | May 18, 2005, 2:42 pm |
| RE:RE: Who are they kidding? | Don P | May 18, 2005, 2:32 pm |
| Compare Reserves to settlement amounts | Knows Better | May 18, 2005, 2:28 pm |
| RE: Who are they kidding? | chuck | May 18, 2005, 2:07 pm |
| RE: RE: Who are they kidding? | Ron | May 18, 2005, 1:49 pm |
| RE: Who are they kidding? | Jack | May 18, 2005, 12:53 pm |
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| Who are they kidding? | Jeff Erickson | May 18, 2005, 12:24 pm |
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Subject: Tort Reform
Let's take the holy grail of tort reform.....the repeal of the doctrine of joint and several liability.....if the deep pocket is gone or limited to it's own liability and not subject to paying for the liability of others, there goes mostof your law suits. They won't even be filed. Certainly a significant economic impact will result from a decrease in the number of law suits filed.
Trial lawyers always want to cry about the deniel of access to the courts for those who have been injured. In fact, it is the plaintiff trial lawyer who is the first level of denying injured people their day in court. When the trial lawyer decides not to take a case after his initial evaluation, it is usually because he can't find a deep pocket to bring into the case and he thereby denies to the injured party access to the courts, not because they don't have a good case, but because the trial lawyer can get a "big kill" on the fee.
Tort reform will definately lower the cost of doing business and this will have a favorable impact on the economy...........to argue otherwise is absurd.
To review Florida tort reform proposals go to www.aif.com and click on TORT REFORM on the right side of the page. Our effort failed during the 2005 session, but we are hoping the Governor will call special sessions of the Legislature this summer to pass the repeal of joint and several liability and other significant tort reform measures.
As a busines lobbyist in Florida for the last 37 years, I have heard every trial lawyer argument and none of them are valid. It's simply a metter of getting the votes in the Congress and the state legislatures to get tort reform and this is where the trial lawyers have been m,ore successful than the business and insuranvce communities it the past. But, with leaders like President George Bush and Governor Jeb Bush, we now have a chance for meaningful reform.