In the Green Room: Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS)

Gerrit Lansing / September 21, 2009

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In 2004 Governor Barbour passed comprehensive tort reform legislation in Mississippi. The state’s notorious reputation for “jackpot justice” has never recovered. In a recent op-ed Barbour wrote:

The number of medical liability lawsuits against Mississippi doctors fell almost ninety percent one year after tort reform went into effect. Doctors have quit leaving the state and limiting their practices to avoid lawsuit abuse. 

Those dramatic results should be replicated on the national level, said Governor Barbour at the Heritage Foundation last week: (more…)