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Tort reform supporters hail election outcome.(Election 2004)
Business Insurance, November, 2004 by Hofmann, Mark A.
Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-President Bush's re-election and the exit of several anti-tort reform lawmakers from the Senate could help push civil justice reform closer to reality in the next Congress. Gone are such tort reform opponents as Sens. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Ernest Hollings, D-S.C, neither of whom sought re-election.
Also gone is Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who fell to Republican challenger John Thune, a former representative. In addition, pro-tort reform forces grew slightly in the House, where a pro-reform bipartisan majority had already passed medical malpractice reform measures as well as a class-action reform bill, only to see them die in the Senate. Those reforms, plus changing the nature of the system by which...
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