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ConTORTing America |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Frieda Campbell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,385 Words, 19,054 Characters |
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Americans also might be stunned to know that they are paying an estimated $1,200 each a year in add-on product costs that cover companies' expenses related to today's civil litigation, or tort, system.vbcrlf Moreover, the "working harder to remain in place" economic malaise Americans complain of is largely due to a steep drop in U.S. productivity growth since 1973 that economists now blame in part on the vast increase in tort litigation that has taken place over approximately the same 20-year period.vbcrlf Once upon a time not so long ago, litigation and lawyers were not running rampant in America any more than in other countries. But over the past two decades, there has been a virtual explosion i...
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...or chasing red herrings in a fake fight reminiscent of big-time wrestling."vbcrlf Hopefully, legal reform will not fall victim to the political syndrome recently described by commentator Thomas Sowell, who said: "The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority. Reelection is." vbcrlf
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