Word: torts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources: USA Today; American Tort Reform Association; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Amazon.com USA Today; Playboy
Bush's ability to focus at the right time has yielded such results as tort reform in Texas. The bill had been languishing in the legislature in 1995. When state senator David Sibley, the G.O.P. author of the legislation, went to see Bush to tell him it was dead, Bush invited him to dinner at the Governor's mansion. Until then, the Governor had kept his distance from legislative machinations. That night he weighed in. With Sibley by his side, Bush got on the phone with the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock, and in a matter of minutes hammered...
...poor and short-sighted institutional choice," says Lars Noah '86, an associate professor at the University of Florida professor, who is an expert in tort law and food and drug law. "As a result, the information [the deans] get from their proctors...
...TRIAL LAWYERS sought the reverse, hoping to see a lucrative new area of the mass-tort industry. It would protect consumers as well...
...said plaintiffs in ADA suits win in court only 8 percent of the time, as compared to 60 percent of the time in general contract lawsuits and 40 percent in tort suits...