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...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...
...that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund. The law in question is a once-obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress: the Alien Tort Claims Act. Originally designed to combat piracy, it fell into disuse until 1980, when courts began applying it to liability for aiding and abetting violations of fundamental human rights no matter where they occur. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries, although...
...question is a once obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress and known as the Alien Tort Claims Act. Originally designed to combat piracy, it fell into disuse until 1980, when courts began applying it to liability for aiding and abetting violations of fundamental human rights no matter where they occur--a standard similar to one used to prosecute German companies at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries. No judgments have been awarded so far, but the potential liability could reach...