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To: Road Walker who wrote (13395)	2/11/2010 8:01:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

'Tort reform' IS an increase in regulation; and Federal regulation at that. Yes and no. Federal? It can be federal or state. Regulation? Yes (except in the narrowest sense, which would not count any legislation) but the tort laws that allow such lawsuits are themselves regulation (again except in the narrowest sense of the term). And in a VERY broad sense of the term, the judicial actions to award money to the plaintiff is also regulation (and if that's too broad for you, its at least government action so tort reform is regulating government, not private action here) Tort reform isn't increasing regulatory impact on the private sector, its decreasing it.