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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.coop/users/shauna/statuses/110199178722169098">Shauna GM (shauna@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 00:34:10 JST</a><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna" title="shauna@social.coop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/84683-48-20230122200954.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Shauna GM" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Shauna GM</a><div><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110199158704904298" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>As you might expect, corporations don't like torts.</p><p> "Tort reform" has been a Republican calling card for decades. What tort reform actually means is restricting your right to go to court, especially against corporations.</p><p>For example, "tort reform" in Michigan has prevented people there from suing Merck for selling a pill that caused strokes or suing Purdue/the Sacklers for pushing opioids.</p><p>The conservative legislation-peddling outfit ALEC has been pushing these kinds of laws for years.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2549542#notice-5049854">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-01-07T00:34:10+09:00" title="Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 00:34:10 JST">Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 00:34:10 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110199178722169098" rel="external" title="Sent from social.coop via ActivityPub">social.coop</a></span></span><a href="https://social.coop/@shauna/110199178722169098">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2073100">But today, people file fewer and fewer tort lawsuits, and more courts seal documents in the cases that do make their way through. In 1993, around ten in 1,000 people filed a tort suit; in 2015, fewer than two in 1,000 did—a difference of 1.7 million cases. The reason for this decline is laws that restrict your right to go to court, particularly if you are in an accident caused by a corporation. These restrictions are known as “tort reform.” Tort reform is a nefarious bit of wordplay—it sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? It is not. Tort reform is a euphemism for an infringement on your right to sue in civil court. The wordplay and the reforms are both crafted by the people who profit from that infringement. In 1986, a few hundred of the largest corporations in the United States, together with the insurance industry, formed the American Tort Reform Association. Twelve years later, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created its own “tort reform” branch, the Institute for Legal Reform, which is now one of the largest lobbying groups in the country. Around that time, small and seemingly grassroots tort reform groups cropped up, too. But these, too, were funded by corporations—in the guise of tax-exempt advocacy groups</a></label><br><a href="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/199/172/902/564/305/original/db28402ac6480c16.png" rel="external">https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/199/172/902/564/305/original/db28402ac6480c16.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2073101">The Michigan Product Liability Act, for example, provides pharmaceutical companies with widespread immunity from being sued by people hurt by their products. It says that you cannot sue a drug manufacturer for unintentional harm caused by a drug if federal regulators approved the drug. That was enough to stop even a $20 million lawsuit filed by the state attorney general against the drug manufacturer Merck for selling an arthritis pill that caused heart attacks and strokes. And it’s why countless victims of the opioid epidemic in Michigan are struggling to sue Purdue Pharma today.</a></label><br><a href="https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/199/178/085/565/223/original/17b57e637ade1b46.png" rel="external">https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/110/199/178/085/565/223/original/17b57e637ade1b46.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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As you might expect, corporations don't like torts.
"Tort reform" has been a Republican calling card for decades. What tort reform actually means is restricting your right to go to court, especially against corporations.
For example, "tort reform" in Michigan has prevented people there from suing Merck for selling a pill that caused strokes or suing Purdue/the Sacklers for pushing opioids.
The conservative legislation-peddling outfit ALEC has been pushing these kinds of laws for years.
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1. But today, people file fewer and fewer tort lawsuits, and more courts seal documents in the cases that do make their way through. In 1993, around ten in 1,000 people filed a tort suit; in 2015, fewer than two in 1,000 did—a difference of 1.7 million cases. The reason for this decline is laws that restrict your right to go to court, particularly if you are in an accident caused by a corporation. These restrictions are known as “tort reform.” Tort reform is a nefarious bit of wordplay—it sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? It is not. Tort reform is a euphemism for an infringement on your right to sue in civil court. The wordplay and the reforms are both crafted by the people who profit from that infringement. In 1986, a few hundred of the largest corporations in the United States, together with the insurance industry, formed the American Tort Reform Association. Twelve years later, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created its own “tort reform” branch, the Institute for Legal Reform, which is now one of the largest lobbying groups in the country. Around that time, small and seemingly grassroots tort reform groups cropped up, too. But these, too, were funded by corporations—in the guise of tax-exempt advocacy groups
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2. The Michigan Product Liability Act, for example, provides pharmaceutical companies with widespread immunity from being sued by people hurt by their products. It says that you cannot sue a drug manufacturer for unintentional harm caused by a drug if federal regulators approved the drug. That was enough to stop even a $20 million lawsuit filed by the state attorney general against the drug manufacturer Merck for selling an arthritis pill that caused heart attacks and strokes. And it’s why countless victims of the opioid epidemic in Michigan are struggling to sue Purdue Pharma today.
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