The Pros And Cons Of Tort Reform

Tort Reform is this good? Does Tort Reform actually help us, the consumers from Corporate America putting profits over us? Does Tort Reform help with safer products? Should there be limits to punitive damages?
Is Tort Reform good? There are people that insist it is and there are those like myself that believe Tort Reform is another way to take yet, another right away from us. Allow me to begin by defining Tort Reform. Tort is a personal legal wrong doing and Reform is to make changes in order to improve it. So, we have a personal legal wrong doing and making changes to improve a particular situation. Sounds good right! Based on just the definition why would we not all be for Reform. Let’s Reform everything. Hmmm… here lies the problem. This
Of course, it did. Reform helped the company not the plaintiff if anything your right was agreeably taken away. If that was your intended goal than perfect, but if you were thinking about putting yourself in the plaintiff’s seat would you still agree? I was not able to find what Liebeck costs vs award was, but after using the second example, it left the plaintiff with debt and future costs that will eventually lead to debt or no services for the future. The benefit was one sided, on the side of the company. Reform hinders the courts and the judicial process. By not being able to hand down proportional justice, thus thwarting our right to hold those accountable. Similarly, does Tort Reform help with safer products? When we have the ability to exercise our right to hold those accountable individuals and society reaps the rewards. Examples of this would be the tobacco companies, Firestone Tire, and of course with Liebeck v McDonalds to name a few. All of these companies CHANGED the way they do things. Weather it was changing policy, changing manufacturing practices or even recalling products to avoid the strong hand of justice. Instead of budgeting for the “what