The commonly held view that state tort liability litigation can do much good and little harm because it provides added protection to patients and consumers is largely unsupported.

A recent paper by professors Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University School of Law provides striking and counterintuitive evidence that tort reforms at the state level contribute to a decrease in accidental deaths. Rubin and Shepherd found that reforms such as capping noneconomic damages, requiring a...

Tort reform may save lives.

Led by President George W. Bush, the call for dramatic reform of the U.S. tort system has become louder in recent months. Within this context, Anup Malani, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, and Charles H. Mullin, an economist at Bates White, will present their recent study...

The Gulf Coast oil spill offers an opportunity to reflect on the basic principles of tort law, which makes clear that in this case full economic damages are appropriate but punitive damages should not be pursued.

Direct costs to the United States of tort litigation are $252 billion a year. Indirect costs are far higher. Reform would boost the economy at a critical time.

This bookstudies ways to reduce the costs of accident liability litigation through tort reform.

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In the past three decades, a mounting wave of litigation has swept the United States, prompting Newsweek to describe America as “lawsuit hell.” Fear of litigation has reduced innovation, menaced the health-care industry, driven manufacturers out of lawsuit-prone specialties,...