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The History Of Tort Reform - A Story of Corporate Greed And A Conspiracy Against Justice For The People 

Richard Middleton, Jr. past president of the American Association of Justice (AAJ) describes where the concept of tort reform originated:

It is no secret that, for more than three decades, business interests have invested billions of dollars to sell the public a distorted view of a legal system that is justifiably envied throughout the world. They say rampant litigiousness requires tort "reform" that restricts the legal rights of injured people, not those of businesses suing businesses, which account for most litigation. What they seek, really, is corporate welfare-assurance that their misdeeds will be paid for not by them, but by others.

For the last 15 years, insurance companies, manufacturers of dangerous products and chemicals, the tobacco industry and other major industries have been engaged in a nationwide assault on the civil justice system. In nearly every state and in Congress, corporations and their insurers have waged a relentless campaign to change the laws that give sick and injured consumers the ability to hold their offenders responsible for the injuries they cause. . .

Perhaps the public is more ready to understand this tort reform conspiracy against their rights, and threat to the country, after seeing the unbelievable financial misconduct of Wall Street, AIG, Enron and The Madoffs of the world. . . .

A great place to start to hear what our greatest consumer advocates say about who is behind tort reform - who invented the term tort reform - a lot can be learned by looking behind the curtain to see who is really the wizard of Oz?. The Report entitled "The CALA [Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse] Files - The Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Major Industries to Take Away your Rights," by the Center for Justice and Democracy (CJ&D) and Public Citizen names the players: . . .

These groups are organized and coordinate their activities:

Right-wing funding patterns support lock-step coordination. One example of this coordination is a weekly meeting hosted by Grover Norquist, of the Scaife/Coors/Olin /Bradley (among others)-funded Americans for Tax Reform, and attended by representatives of the funding foundations

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