Word: torts
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...beating Big Tobacco, representing the whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, subject of the movie The Insider. Scruggs' tobacco suits netted his practice an estimated $1 billion, money that bought him toys, from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs has given up the Bentley for a more modest BMW. "He got it out of his system," an associate says. And Scruggs insists that his latest crusade--against nonprofit...
GALLAGHER: If Bush wins and the Republicans do surprisingly well in the Senate and the Democrats feel they paid a price for their stand opposing tort reform, you could get some significant relief for companies with asbestos liabilities. Some, like maybe USG, if they go bankrupt, are $5 stocks, but if we get asbestos relief are $35 stocks...
...Senator, Edwards has voted against most tort-reform legislation, bills that would put limits on the right to sue or impose caps on jury awards. And--no surprise--lawyers provided the lion's share of Edwards' presidential-primary-campaign funds. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, of the $14.5 million he raised, $9.3 million came from lawyers or law firms. That is something Bush might have turned into a campaign issue--if the President hadn't got slightly more from them himself ($9.4 million...
...lawyer blamed the insurer, the insurer blamed the lawyer, and the doctor blamed them both at a panel discussion last night in Emerson Hall on the topic of medical malpractice and tort reform...
...107th Congress failed to pass medical malpractice tort reform, leaving doctors in a precarious position and an unacceptable number of Americans without access to adequate medical services. While the current bill would not solve America’s health care problems, it would go a long way toward easing the burdens placed on doctors as a result of excessive malpractice awards. It is time for Democrats to look past the malpractice lawyers’ special interest and eliminate the present distortion of the American health care system...