Ron on Tort Reform

For the past two decades, the tobacco, condom, auto, petroleum, firearm, and breast implant industries, and their insurers, have fought to limit peoples' rights to sue and to further limit their own liability for the damages they cause innocent victims. Ron hates that. Aimed in the direction of Congress and the state legislatures, this coalition of insurance companies and corporate defendants' lobbies has relied on misinformation and anecdotal evidence to attack and destroy decades of slow but careful progress made by state courts respecting the physical integrity of human beings against harm. Ron wants to restore the rights of injured consumers to sue the pants off the perpetrators of their harm (i.e. big corporations). "No more Mr. Nice Guy," said Ron to a group of mentally handicapped adolescents in June. While banging on the podium with his fist he continued, "We must stop allowing for-profit companies to make profits by allowing any backwater yokel who is stupid enough to misuse a safe product to sue the company for an unfathomable sum of money." Unfortunately for Ron, he accidentally knocked over his mug of steaming hot Starbucks coffee on his lap at this time. That case has just moved to trial.

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