Agencies' Rules Quietly Enable Tort Reform
The Washington Post today has an article on how Federal Agencies' are Changing Rules to Quietly Enable Tort Reform:
"The Bush administration realizes it's impossible to get the broad-based tort reform the business community would love. There has been a conscious effort to take small steps," said Glenn G. Lammi, chief counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation , a pro-business public-interest group.
Let’s be clear about this. When they say ‘tort reform’, they mean take away the rights of injured individuals. What they are doing is saying that if a product meets the federal safety requirements, it will be by definition be considered safe. Hmmm… It seems like whether a product is safe or not, should determine whether it’s safe. One last quote from the end of the article:
He [ Douglas A. Kysar , a law professor at Cornell University and a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform] said preemption overlooks one benefit of tort law: "Tort law is not just about trying to change standards; it's to compensate people for their injuries," he said.
Exactly.
TORT REFORM ---Move to modernize tort laws.
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