How Do You Feel About Tort Reform? It Depends On How you Feel

Pete Mackey

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Feelings about tort reform can vary with the landscape. Anyone who makes their policy decisions primarily in accordance with their financial bottom line, and happens to be on the white collar side of the equation, loves tort reform - as long as it does not affect their pocketbook. Damage Caps? Check. Insanely short statutes of limitation? Roger that. Arbitration? Of course.

Howard Bronson, the former publisher of the Mobile Press-Register since 1991, has seen the light. The man who carried all the water for the tort reform movent that he could, who made sure that his newspaper railed against what he saw as "jackpot justice" and "runaway verdicts," who never saw a punitive damage award that was justified, has done a one eighty. After being shown the door, he has filed suit against the owner, claiming that it reneged on a job security agreement made when he started with the paper. Way to go, Howard! Are you trying to make good law for life time employment contracts? Did you ask for punitive damages? Do you think that maybe it's time to recognize that "what's good for GM is what's good for America" may not be the catch phrase you thought it was? Ask Robert Bork - he had to make the same decision.