Why is tort reform bad?
Never before has there been such an effort by special interests to make money by avoiding accountability for their bad practices. The effort to avoid accountability has centered on a relentless attack on the rights of Americans to use the judicial system to protect themselves and their families. A primary goal of this attack is to shift the cost of paying for consequences of defective products, careless practices, and shortsighted management policies away from large corporations and insurance companies. To the extent that such an effort is successful, these costs will largely fall on middle class families who will pay higher taxes to provide care for those who are injured by careless conduct, environmental pollutants, and defective products. The costs associated with the loss of tax revenues from those who cannot earn income due to impaired earning capacity, and larger costs associated with the disruption of families from injured or killed family members, will also be shifted from wron
