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NEW TORT REFORM PUSH UNLIKELY: GM VERDICT NOT SEEN AS CATALYST.
Business Insurance, July, 1999 by PRINCE, MICHAEL
Despite its huge size, this month's $4.9 billion verdict against Detroit-based General Motors Corp. won't greatly influence tort reform in California or in other states, legal experts predict. Experts say a verdict against Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford Motor Co. for $295 million also won't spur new legislation.
Tort reform advocates still will use the verdict to demonstrate that new laws are needed, but it won't have the impact that other cases have had, the reformers say. The GM case is a ``textbook case'' demonstrating the problem with not providing jurors guidance on awarding punitive damages, said Sherman Joyce, president of the Washington-based American Tort Reform Assn. Such guidance can include a cap on punitive damages or limiting such damages in...
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