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Drive to change tort laws slows.
Business Insurance, June, 1996 by Hofmann, Mark A.
Lawmakers build job reference shield Tort reform advocates are gearing up for legislative battles in the statehouses next year after this year's rather quiet performance. Unlike 1995, when more than a dozen states enacted significant tort reforms, 1996 was a year of fine-tuning and defending previous gains, tort reformers say.
Few states passed comprehensive reforms, though many approved carefully targeted legislation. "If there's any one issue that's really popped up on the screen, it's the employer reference issue," said Sherman Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Assn. in Washington. Several states, including. Maryland and South Carolina, enacted legislation shielding employers from civil liability for the references they give to former employees'...
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