Bush supports new product law. (George Bush)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, November, 1989 by Fisher, Mary Jane

Bush Supports New Product Law WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is putting together its own agenda for federal product liability tort reform, a high-ranking Commerce Department official said at a recent Johnson & Higgins insurance seminar in New York City. "A federal solution is warranted," said Wendell L.

Willkie II, Commerce Department general counsel. He noted that "piecemeal state reforms are not enough. Major differences among the states will remain, spawning uncertainty." Pointing out that President Bush supported tort reform legislation during the 1988 presidential campaign, Mr. Willkie said the president directed the administration's Council on Competitiveness last summer to develop an administration product liability initiative. The council,...

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