Greedy Trial Lawyer
The Big Tent Of Tort Reform
Category: Gaming The System
Waiving the banner of tort reform car dealers are attempting to limit their liability to consumers. Pretty soon drunk drivers will be the only wrongdoers with any legal liability for anything.
Car Dealers Try for Immunization
Automobile dealers are trying to craft state consumer fraud laws to immunize themselves from suits in several states by what critics claim is a coordinated effort to limit the ability of private lawyers and attorneys general to hold them accountable.Proposed law changes in Virginia, Florida and Ohio would, among other things, limit damages that consumers can seek against dealers and require presuit notice that makes it tougher to litigate.
Ira Rheingold, general counsel of the National Association of Consumer Advocates in Washington, claimed that industry lobbyists disguise legislation as consumer protection laws and then sell it to state legislators as tort and class action reform. They also put arbitration clauses in consumer contracts and lobby for federal legislation that pre-empts state statutes, Rheingold said.
Excerpted from The National Law Journal.
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