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A landmark law in Iowa limiting jury awards to $5 million in accident lawsuits against commercial vehicles was sent to the desk of Gov. Kim Reynolds for enactment. ....
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Slammed with lawsuits. 2013 was full of them, and not all were legitimate. look at the u.s. chamber of commerce s top 10 list of ridiculous suits. just a couple. number one, inmates suing beer companies for their life of crime. i m serious. and then the man taking apple to court for his own addiction to porn. and you say these are just more reasons why we need tort reform. we should have said tort reform and health reform. i love the one the grown man who sued his parents. the cbo says that tort costs costs the u.s. economy $350 billion a year. 24r is a congressional bill that would cap awards and capillary fees fees and only allah medical malpractice lawsuits to be brought within ....
Means committee this upcoming cycle and i want to talk about my manufacturing background. we have to get back to producing tangible goods. but the government really has to create an environment for businesses to succeed. it is the tax rate, reforming our tort costs which come paired to other industrializeed countries are two to four times higher, and that is a tax on business making us less competitive. if we do not produce goods we will see jobs go overseas. and that is a number one issue right now for republicans in getting confidence back in this economy. we will go and push those sentencives that will help businesses create jobs here in north america. you have run a business and created jobs, a lot of animosity in washington, dc about corporations who they say are not doing their fair share. canada s economy by every measure is stronger than ours right now. what can we learn from canada? ....
Hammered if you raise your prices too much through the coming rate review and getting into the exchanges. on the other hand, if you think you are going out of business, you may try to rack up some money while you can. but the economy is probably a larger factor. with a lot of people losing jobs and health insurance there were fewer customers around and those who tended to be in some of these markets are the more expensive people who had to hang on. so the insurers thought their prices and their costs were going to rise. what s actually shown up in the last year, partly because of a lot more cost sharing is that those actual claims costs have been going down. so i think this premium price something little out of phase that it s not going to stick and not be able to sell their policies at these rates. bill: maybe not. longer term. bill: look a guy like me, i can shop it if i want to. i don t have a lot of choices because there isn t competition across state lines. only a couple. al ....