The phrase "a national tort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a wrongful act or infringement that is recognized as a tort at the national level.
Example: "The government is facing a lawsuit for a national tort that has affected citizens' rights."
Alternatives: "a federal tort" or "a countrywide tort".
It's all occurring as the City was named a "Judicial Hellhole" by a national tort reform group that claims defendants are not treated fairly in its courts – particularly the asbestos docket known as New York City Asbestos Litigation (NYCAL).
Newport News, a city of 180,000 people, helps me make the point that my hometown of Los Angeles is in a different league for civil court forum shopping than the rest of California, even though it was the entire state that a national tort reform group recently labeled a "Judicial Hellhole".
a) We need national tort reform to bring down the cost of medical malpractice insurance and to eliminate some of the unnecessary testing that is done only as CYA.
In the face of legislative inaction, the federal courts-lacking authority to replace state tort systems with a national toxic tort compensation regime-endeavored to work with the procedural tools available to improve management of federal asbestos litigation.
That is meaningful national tort reform.
That same year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created its Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) to pursue the Chamber's national tort reform agenda.
From that day, it was clear that Member State liability was not dependent on the existence of a national system of public tort liability.
Insurers say their business has benefited from those state laws, and they would welcome tort reform at a national level.
They say legends like the one about the Texas railroad have been used to maximum effect by a national business-supported movement to make it harder for plaintiffs to win lawsuits under tort law, which governs civil injury claims.
"We should be cautious in imposing novel theories of tort liability while the difficult problem of illegal guns in the United States remains the focus of a national policy debate," Judge Richard C. Wesley wrote for the court.
"Other states have passed tort reform, but Texas implemented big changes all at once," said Lisa Robin, a vice president for government relations at the Federation of State Medical Boards, a national umbrella group based in Dallas.
