Sentence examples for on the tort from inspiring English sources

By most accounts, however, the Republican majority in the new Congress is facing treacherous political terrain on the tort reform issue.

On the tort side, Mr. Cardozo said that the city had just begun what he expected to be an exhaustive study of tort claims against the city.

Mr. Bracken, who co-chairs the New York State Bar Association task force on the tort system, said: "If a patient loses a leg because of malpractice he would get $250,000.

One of the hottest topics on the tort lawyer conference circuit is welding rod litigation.

Although most of these measures involve changes in the complex rules governing the malpractice tort system itself (eg, capping jury awarded damages), our broader view of "reform" also includes attempts to exert influence on the tort system from the outside (eg, peer review of expert testimony) and measures designed to keep patient dissatisfaction out of the tort system (eg, apology for error).

They say that a focus on the tort rule forestalls a thorough discussion of lawsuit's central claim: that members of the Saudi government were involved in the planning of 9/11.

Since the Act, now the, was premised on common law rules of the tort of defamation, the Court held that the Legislature had "clearly intended that the common law relating to defamation, as modified by the Act, should continue to apply in Singapore".

One prominent paper expounding a general economic theory of contract makes this plain in its title, proposing a general theory of contract law based on the tort-like principle of mitigation, or loss-prevention (Goetz & Scott 1983).

A much-needed dialogue on overhauling the tort system in healthcare is at hand.

Over the past two decades, trial lawyers have faced a barrage of attacks from corporate America on multiple fronts involving the tort reform movement, a push towards mandatory, binding arbitration and of course the battle over our state's MICRA law.

SMUG is being represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, of New York, and the suit is based on the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreigners to file civil lawsuits against Americans for violations of international law.