SD20 - The Liability Insurance Crisis and the Need for Tort Reform

  • Published: 1988
  • Author: General Assembly. Joint Subcommittee
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 22 (Regular Session, 1987)

Executive Summary:
This study was a continuation of the study commenced in 1986 pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution No. 22. In its interim report of 1987, the joint subcommittee recommended that the study be continued to (i) review the need for and effects of implementation of various methods of alternative dispute resolution and (ii) evaluate available data on the effects of the recommendations of the joint subcommittee enacted by the 1987 Session of the General Assembly (see Senate Document No. 11, 1987). Senate Joint Resolution No. 109 and House Joint Resolution No. 221 were passed and the study was continued (see Appendix A). The membership remained the same; Senator William F. Parkerson, Jr., remained Chairman and Delegate C. Hardaway Marks remained Vice-Chairman.