Sadly, this is tied up in the much broader tort-law problem that bedevils American capitalism.Regulators could also do with an overhaul.
Some would argue for an even broader view of tort "reform" that would including measures for reducing the pool of dissatisfied patients.
They write: "Even the smallest of websites will be threatened with the stick of punitive 'exemplary damages' if they fall foul of a broad range of torts encompassing everything from libel to 'breach of confidence'".
The Ninth Circuit's broad interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute, the solicitor general told the court, was "untenable" and "fraught with foreign policy implications and the potential for interference with the exercise of constitutional responsibilities by the political branches".
The lawyers said that the money, in violation of nonprofit restrictions, was ultimately funneled to the chamber itself and used to finance broader political causes, including support for legal tort reform to shield companies like A.I.G. from liability.
One might hope that by achieving these purposes, malpractice tort law would further the broader goals of better health care and outcomes.
Thus, mortgage litigation appears to bear the hallmarks of toxic tort litigation: i.e., broad-ranging settlements that attempt to resolve sweeping claims and speed financial benefits to a large number of beneficiaries.
She was elected to the Civil Court of the City of New York in 1993 and served on the Civil and Supreme Courts for the next eighteen years, presiding over a broad range of cases including matrimonial, contract, tort, property, labor law and litigation brought against the City of New York.
The Bush administration, which has embraced a broad theory of federal pre-emption of individual tort suits, entered the case on the manufacturer's behalf.
Some physicians largely restrict the term to defendant-friendly changes in the rules and procedures governing the workings of the tort system, whereas others take a somewhat broader view.
More explicitly philosophical accounts have also sought to re-characterize contract law as a special case of the broader class of harm-based obligations more familiarly associated with tort.
