What is Tort Reform and how could it affect may case?
Tort Reform is an attempt by very powerful sources, businesses and insurance companies, to take away our rights as U.S. citizens, and either to prevent injured victims from their day in court or substantially inhibit their ability to be fully compensated for their injuries. Every day it seems you read that one state or another is taking up the issue of artificial “caps” on monetary damages. These forces falsely argue that there is a “lawsuit crisis” or too many “runaway juries.” The statistics show otherwise. Their aim is to ultimately take away our right to have cases decided by a jury of our peers and to take away the right to elect judges. Once that is accomplished, these forces can combine to have judges appointed who will be favorable to them, further eroding any chance an injured victim has of being treated fairly in the judicial system.
