Big Business Exploits Tort Reform: Ken Connor
Monday, April 19, 2010

Conservative attorney and author Ken Connor is not willing to go along with reforms to the legal system that big business and many on the right have been advocating. Using the recent mining disaster in West Virginia as an example, Connor points out that “there is a dangerous move afoot to immunize corporate malefactors from full accountability to their victims.”
Companies like Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine, have already been getting away with safety violations that have put Americans in harm’s way. To adopt tort reform proposals pushed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would only make it that much easier for certain businesses to continue their irresponsible and dangerous behavior.
Installing caps on non-economic and punitive awards in civil cases would rob individuals from serious recourse when corporate wrongdoing has occurred.
Connor insists the country needs “robust legal mechanisms” to send a message to companies that it is not cheaper to cut corners and risk people’s lives.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Subsidizing Bad Behavior: The Injustice of Tort Reform (by Ken Connor, Center for a Just Society)
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