Word: tort
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...every level. So the Democrats, who usually balk at limiting the ability to sue, accepted the idea of an airline bailout--as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...
...every level. So the Democrats, who usually balk at limiting the ability to sue, accepted the idea of an airline bailout - as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...
...American Tort Reform Association, backed mostly by Republicans, has been lobbying since 1986 to limit noneconomic damages in some suits to $250,000. John Ashcroft, head of the Justice Department, pushed for such a cap on punitive damages when he was a Senator. But Feinberg, a Democrat, insists he was not pressured by the Administration to keep the numbers...
...road connecting ExxonMobil's facilities and the city of Lhokseumawe. The troops in that camp are paid out of funds the company provides as part of its agreement with the Indonesian government. The group plans to argue that the company is liable under the centuries-old Alien Tort Claims Act, which allows companies to be sued in the U.S. for wrongful acts committed overseas...
...fees are paid by a state or local government and the fee is above a "reasonable amount." The lawyer tax has been a popular idea in Republican circles for years--Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) made a similar proposal in 1998--and was part of Bush's larger tort-reform package. Unfortunately, rather than balance the playing field in any meaningful way, the lawyer tax represents a clear example of arbitrary, discriminatory and politically motivated taxation whereby the ruling party attacks its enemies through the tax code...