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Robert Alphonso Taft III (born January 8, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 67th governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Taft political dynasty and Republican Party, Taft previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives, then as Hamilton County commissioner, and as Ohio Secretary of State under governor George Voinovich.
He was first elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1987 and was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. Moyer presided over the DeRolph decision dealing with school funding, as well as the late 1990s' legal battle over tort reform. [citation needed] Although a Republican, Moyer had a strong belief in the principles of stare decisis. In 2001, he ...
Advocates of tort reform complain of unconstitutional regulation caused by litigation, and that litigation is used to circumvent the legislative process by achieving regulation that Congress is unwilling or unable to pass. Tort reform is also proposed as one solution to rapidly increasing health care costs in the United States.
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.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO R.R. V. GOODMAN, 275 U.S. 66 ... McDonald's coffee case: An American court case that became a cause célèbre for advocates of tort reform.
Proponents of tort reform thus endorse caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice claims as a way to reduce the extent to which physicians practice defensive medicine, the provision of unnecessary medical care in order to avoid potential liability, and would increase access to health care.
Gov. Brian Kemp Wednesday pledged to continue pushing major tort reform legislation when the General Assembly convenes in January for the 2025 legislative session.
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 ...