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Jerry Nadler: “At its core, the purpose of the tort system is to apportion responsibility and to allocate costs based on how each of us…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2013
At its core, the purpose of the tort system is to apportion responsibility and to allocate costs based on how each of us observes or fails to observe our legal duties to one another.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Jerrold Nadler explains the fundamental purpose of the tort system.

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