Article: Recoverable damages for wrongful death in the states.

Article: Ohio Court Nullifies Damage-Suit Curbs; Ruling Called Blow to ...
The Washington Post;  August 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... overturning their own tort- reform laws, many of them ... chipped away or scrapped tort- reform laws. In some states ... s most ambitious tort-reform law. The measure placed ... noneconomic damages and wrongful-death actions, raised standards ...

Article: Commentary: Tort reform law is first step to where?
THE JOURNAL RECORD;  June 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... land to call SB 629 "tort reform." It is so narrow ... medical malpractice tort reform. Basically, it only ... situations, it does not in wrongful death cases. It helps the ... moratorium on further tort reform legislation. That move ...

Article: Ill. tort reform provision declared ...
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  November 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... recently enacted tort reform law unconstitutional. The tort reform provision at issue ... new claim for wrongful death. Owens-Illinois ... to dismiss the wrongful death count of the complaint ... vocal critic of tort reform, said that with ...

Article: Unintended consequences of tort reform: rent ...
Journal of Forensic Economics;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... legal issues addressed by the state tort reform movement of the 1980s and 1990s and ... of the states enacted some type of tort reform legislation (Schmit et al., 1997 ... Viscusi et al., 1993). However, some tort reform laws may have had the opposite effect ...

Article: Tort law battlegrounds stretch from East to West coasts; ...
Business Insurance;  November 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... such as New Jersey, where a tort reform organization formed in October ... unlimited emotional damages in wrongful death cases. "That's something we ... the country, one of the oldest tort reform advocacy groups-the Sacramento ...

Article: Lawmakers Approve Tort Reform Bill
The Journal Record;  May 24, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... between two sides of the tort reform issue: Citizens Against ... raised money to get a tort reform question on a statewide ... In personal injury, wrongful death and certain civil rights ... piece of state-level tort reform legislation for three ...

Article: EDITORIAL: New York Lawyers Lobby against Much-Needed Tort ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the stratosphere, the need for tort reform in New York is obvious. Except ... create a new way to collect in wrongful-death lawsuits -- and cost the city ... he supports Mayor Bloomberg's tort-reform efforts, declared that the measure ...