Tort Reform: Remedy or Red Herring?
By Ken Connor
“In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality.  Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.”
- Charles de Montesquieu
In the ongoing debate over health care reform, critics on the right are [...]

The bankruptcies of Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Corp. have thrown scores of injury lawsuits into what one expert called “murkier waters” of the law’s treatment of future tort claims. In hopes of preserving consumers’ rights to recover damages, consumer organizations and plaintiff lawyers are petitioning the Supreme Court to preserve current and future [...]

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled in favor of Exxon Valdez plaintiffs seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in interest from the oil giant. In a unanimous ruling, the court found interest on the reduced $507 million punitive damages award should run from the original 1996 verdict rather than from the Supreme [...]