"The House passed tort reform in September," said Richard J. Pollack, executive vice president of the American Hospital Association.
In the House, the Democratic minority's success at playing rope-a-dope with the rules prompted the Republican majority — like the Senate, in accordance with the rules — to adopt a shut-up-and-vote strategy, passing tort reform and immigrant regulation bills after cutting off debate and amendments.
Three of the five states with claimants against RPM have already passed tort reforms that will reduce liabilities.
One could systematically disable all three, by passing tort-reform legislation that would cut off the trial lawyers' incomes, by tilting pro-Israel in Middle East policy and thus changing the loyalties of big Jewish contributors, and by trying to shrink the part of the labor force which belongs to the newer, and more Democratic, public-employee unions.
Both houses of the State Legislature have passed a tort reform bill that would limit awards for damages like death or pain and suffering to $500,000 in health care cases and $1 million in all others.
Chanting, waving placards and wearing their white lab coats, the doctors crowded onto State Street, in front of the State House, to hear speakers urge the General Assembly to pass a tort-reform bill that would limit awards for pain and suffering to $1 million, and insurers' liability for such awards to $300,000.
The Mississippi legislature passed his tort-reform program, which severely limited liability.
In the 1980's, he spearheaded a move in the Senate to pass changes to tort law allowing people poisoned by pollution more time to file suit, a bill the Senate leadership opposed.
This assertion seems doubtful, given that piracy was clearly one of the original violations of the "Law of Nations" contemplated by the First Congress when it passed the Alien Tort Statute as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
During Mr. Bush's time as governor, Democrats controlled the Texas House and Senate, requiring that he work with the majority party to pass his signature proposals: tort reform, education reform, juvenile-justice reform and welfare reform.
Even trial lawyers have taken a pass on this potential tort.
