Could terrorist attacks bring needed tort reform?
As a native New Yorker I will never see our country in the same light. No matter how perfect our revenge and our reconstruction, 5,000 of our buddies disappeared from their loved ones while at work. They were New Yorkers — people who average 40 miles commute each way daily to put the bread on the table. They work an extra day a week compared to most Americans. They are the heart and soul of much of out national economy. Five thousand of our best are gone. I left the business world to attend law school at age 40, and in 1986 as a brand new patent lawyer I wrote some articles on how our economy was at risk from collapse because of lawyers. Florida, where I attended law school, had been nicknamed “the sue me state,” and doctors had stopped delivering babies because lawyers were suing and collecting their third on ridiculous lawsuits on the negligence of doctors and nurses. Fully a third of my graduating class were studying on how to sue their first doctor. The national think tank, The Na
