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Ohio S.C. makes another pro-business ruling
Submitted by John O'Brien on 12.28.2007
Tort reformers recently earned their second major victory in the Ohio Supreme Court this year, as the justices upheld a law that puts caps on non-economic damages in personal injury lawsuits.
Bailout Cure Is Worse Than the Disease
Submitted by John R. Graham on 12.17.2007
Kudos to Alan Reynolds ("Dissecting the Bailout Plan" op-ed, Dec. 10) for his accurate dissection of the president's disgraceful mortgage "bailout" plan.
Economic Policy Institute study kowtows to greed of personal injury lawyers
Submitted by Lewis Fuller on 12.16.2007
Several newspapers have carried an article by a personal-injury trial lawyer touting a "new study" that ostensibly shows there is no lawsuit abuse in sue-happy America.
Capping Jury Verdicts Boon For Health Care
Submitted on 12.11.2007
Free-market fixes are proving to be just what the doctor ordered, the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Drew Thornley reports. The hotly debated "tort reforms" concerning medical liability have yielded significant results for Texans.
California's Expensive ZIP Codes Deliver Cut-Rate Education Results
Submitted by Dr. Matthew Ladner on 12.1.2007
Opinion polls have long shown stronger than average support for school choice among Hispanics and African-Americans. Suburban complacency could explain much of this gap. If so, this fascinating book by a team of Pacific Research Institute scholars comes as an alarming wake-up call to well-to-do Californians who believe America's education crisis is someone else's problem.
Real tort tax doesn't have much to do with lawsuits
Submitted by Robert Leslie Parker on 12.1.2007
Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey recently reported that many of the "poster child" cases for the "tort reform" agenda advanced by big business are either entirely fabricated or exaggerated beyond recognition. He then observed that the media, "too dazzled by marvelous stories to do even the easiest research to determine whether they were true," bear much of the blame.
Reconsidering Suit Ability
Submitted by Alan Ehrenhalt on 12.1.2007
One evening a few years ago, on a reporting trip to Charleston, West Virginia, I noticed a nice-looking restaurant right across the street from my hotel. I walked in, found a table, picked up a menu--and practically fell out of my seat. The entrees started in the $30 range and drifted upward from there. I mumbled an apology to the hostess and looked for somewhere else to go.
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