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The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) claims that "The cost of the U.S. tort system for 2003 was $246 billion, or $845 per citizen or $3,380 for a family of four" and "The Growth of U.S. tort costs have exceeded the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2-3 per centage points in the past 50 years". [96]
Tort Reform Without Insurance Reform = A Band-Aid on a Broken System!" The Center Square was unsuccessful getting a message returned, prior to publication, from the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.
The Act accomplished two key goals of tort reform advocates: Reduce "forum shopping" by plaintiffs in friendly state courts by extending federal diversity jurisdiction to class actions where there is not "complete diversity", thereby giving federal subject-matter jurisdiction over a broader set of class actions.
(The Center Square) – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hinted at a special session if lawmakers don't pass tort reform legislation during his State of the State address Thursday. The governor also ...
The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to reforming the civil justice system and advocating for tort reform. It was founded in 1986 by the American Council of Engineering Companies and was joined shortly thereafter by the American Medical Association .
After years on the back burner in the General Assembly, tort reform promises to be front and center when Georgia lawmakers convene in January for the 2024 legislative session.
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...
Georgia ranked fourth in the American Tort Reform Association's "Judicial Hellholes" report, dropping from the top spot only because other states had a larger volume of "abuses," the organization ...