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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Joseph Conrad 14 years ago
he stark tragedy of the ongoing efforts to 'immunize' Corporate America from full accountabiliy to their victims for their actions will ultimately destroy th United States in a BLOODBATH of violence, murder and chaos. Americans are becoming increasinly enraged at the actions of the 'Bought' government and congressional minions of corporations to avoid regulation, control or culpability for their violence against US citizens. Corporations are merely raising the intensity of retaliatory actions these citizens will take against their employees, officers and investors around the globe. Look at the growing violnce in Greece and elsewhere. Indeed, thee are a gowin number of 'flamable' nations in which citizens are preparing to exact a harsh penalty upon their politcal leaders and US corporate 'representatives' for polluting their water, stealing their natural resources, deststabilizing their governments and murdering their citizens. US leaders, investors, corporate c-level executives and wealthiest citizens living/traveling abvroad must realize the actions of just a few 1,000 American citizens is about to turn EVERY AMERICAN into a target for assassination, kidnaping, murder, robbery and torture - both at home AND abroad. The cause? US corporate caulousness, Racism, Arrogance, Greed, Egotism and Self-Aggrandizement. The world is increasingly ENRAGED at the behavior of American's wealhiest...

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