Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform

by Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin

Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, products liability, and punitive damages, against the background of the larger political and academic debate over tort reform. Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform brings together and summarizes the authors'extensive empirical research on civil jury verdicts in the context of that debate. Some commentators...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810111217
• ISBN13: 9780810111219
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform

An independent research arm of the American Bar Association supported these two authors to gather and investigate available info [aka empirical data] about civil jury verdicts to see if the data supports claims made by those advocating radical reform of the system. They conclude that info does not support the claims of the advocates of change and reveal how "tort reform" is a political agenda based upon exploitation of fears fueled and funded by a coalition of insurance interests, big business and the republican right.