Political Quotes

“I considered this to be an extremely unfair bill. While it was titled the 'Product Liability Fairness' bill, there were numerous provisions that were one-sided and which attempted to take away rather basic rights of a claimant in a lawsuit, and I thought it was extremely unfair. Also this bill was unfair because of the fact that it exempted all commercial loss and made commercial loss come under the category of commercial or contract law, primarily the Uniform Commercial Code. Commercial loss is a business loss, not a personal injury loss. Some of the most egregious punitive damage suits--practically all of the large ones--have been against business. Penzoil versus Texaco, $11 billion, is the one that stands out primarily in the minds of most people. But commercial loss would be in most all instances restricted to corporate America suing corporate America. Manufacturers do not want to come under the provisions of this bill because they do not want to be put under the same laws as the people who receive personal injuries.”