11.   Clinton may have remembered that when a bill to limit awards in product liability lawsuits came to his desk in May.

12.   Dole said on Wednesday that he would seek to introduce a separate bill before the end of the year to limit awards in medical malpractice cases.

13.   Discourage civil litigation and limit monetary awards, reform product liability laws.

14.   Meanwhile, Congress is drafting civil liability legislation that could limit damage awards.

15.   President Clinton on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have limited awards in lawsuits over faulty products, claiming the measure would harm families and protect corporate wrongdoers.

16.   Republicans took after the president about his ties to trial lawyers because he vetoed a bill limiting damage awards in product-liability lawsuits.

17.   That would change under the Norwood legislation, which would make it easier to file lawsuits in state court, where awards would be limited only by state laws.

18.   The bill would limit damage awards on all civil suits in both federal and state courts.

19.   The British system excludes juries from personal-injury cases, with minor exceptions, and strictly limits awards for pain and suffering.

20.   The idea would give patients the convenience of suing in state court, but limit damage awards.