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Washington Post: The cap on non-economic damages would rise from $2 million to $2.95 million over the next 20 years under a bill that’s been sent to Virginia’s governor.

A Harvard School of Public Health study often cited as evidence of abundant “frivolous” suits actually found “portraits of a malpractice system that is stricken with frivolous litigation are overblown.”

Under the federal Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997, the most Metrolink and Connex Railroad, which had been contracted to operate Metrolink’s trains, can be liable for in damages is $200 million — which, in fact, the two entities told a judge Wednesday they are willing to pay to settle the outstanding claims from the deadly crash.

After the Deepwater Horizon debacle, will the federal oil spill fund have enough money to clean up the next spill?

Jim Marcinkowski, a lawyer and former congressional candidate in Michigan, argues that corporate and medical proponents of tort reform are really just trying to shift responsibility for their business actions to the consumers, or to government.

Baltimore Sun: Maryland becomes the latest state to see its supreme court consider the constitutionality of caps on damage awards.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that the constitutional right to a trial by jury “includes the right to have a jury determine the amount of…damages, if any…”