Tort reformer Lott goes to court
David Sirota has the goods:
NOW:
"Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott and his wife sued State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. to force the insurer to pay for damage to their house in Pascagoula on the Gulf of Mexico, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina."
- Wall Street Journal, 12/16/05
THEN:
"The Democrats seem to think that the answer is a lawsuit. Sue everybody."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 7/20/01
"I'm among many Mississippi citizens who believe tort reform is needed."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 5/8/02
"You know, obviously we should [enact tort reform]...Someday it will happen, and the sooner the better."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 1/24/01
" Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi today credited the agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and tort reform initiatives passed by the Congress and signed into law by President Bush with the overall upturn in the national economy."
- Sen. Trent Lott press release, 12/2/05
"If their answer to everything is more lawsuits, then yes, that's a problem, because I certainly don't support that."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 8/2/02
"It's sue, sue, sue... That's not the answer."
- Sen. Trent Lott, 8/4/01
4 Comments:
You "forgot" to mention WHY Lott is suing the insurance company:
"Today I have joined in a lawsuit against my longtime insurance company because it will not honor my policy, nor those of thousands of other South Mississippians, for coverage against wind damage due to Hurricane Katrina," the Republican lawmaker said in a statement." WSJ
alf: good point. The point of tort reform is not to abolish the legal system but to *reform* it so that it is used to fairly resolve disputes and not as a weapon. I'm no Lott supporter (few Republicans are...) but he's right on this one.
You guys don't understand. Lott's a Republican, you criticize Republicans every chance you get whether it's legitimate or not.
Lott is suing for the same reason that people file medical malpractice suits and auto accident suits and products liability suits---to assert his legal rights. It's just that he is more interested in his rights than he is in those of others who lose loved ones, their health and their livelihods in accidents or other calamities.He is a typical Republican hypocrite on this subject who probably has a bogus claim since he apparently had no flood insurance. It's just that his ox is the one geting gored this time so, of course, he sued. Sue, sue, sue Trent!
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