JACKSON -- Tort reform is back at the Mississippi Capitol.
That term is the shorthand for a yearslong, multistate campaign by business groups to reduce lawsuit verdicts. In Mississippi, it climaxed in a 2004 special legislative session in which lawmakers limited pain-and-suffering damage awards to $1 million in most lawsuits and limited such damages to $500,000 in medical malpractice cases.
In recent years, the titanic political battle had grown quiet. Republican dominance guaranteed no rollba
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