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Texas holds 'em: how Lone Star republicans stopped abusive medical-malpractice lawsuits.(THE STATES)
THAT high lonesome sound you hear ululating over the wideopen Texas prairies isn't coyotes--it's hungry trial lawyers, forced to subsist on 40 percent of a litigation pie that has gotten a little bit smaller of late.
When Texas Republicans finally took control of the Texas legislature in 2003, tort reform was among their cardinal concerns. But legislation was only part of the fight. Several bare-knuckled political battles, the constitutional amendment known as Proposition 12, and five Rick Perry appointments to the state supreme court have entrenched a battery of reforms, including a cap on non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases and several measures ...
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