1.   He said last week that the liability cap for incidents such as the bonfire stack collapse is unfair.

2.   Kerry said elimination of the liability cap represented a vote for the status quo and would guarantee years of lawsuits.

3.   Kerry suggested that eliminating the liability cap would force critics who had claimed the bill was too lenient on the tobacco industry to support its ultimate passage.

4.   State House and Senate bills to lift or remove the liability cap for the bonfire victims remain in committee.

5.   The firm and the family have not decided whether to sue, but they have decided to ask the Legislature to raise the liability cap.

6.   The industry wants the liability caps in part to provide investors a reliable way to accurately predict future costs associated with smoking-related lawsuits.

7.   The suit challenges the constitutionality of the liability cap.

8.   Two pieces of legislation are pending that would lift or remove the liability cap against the university.

9.   When politicians want liability caps, they defend Big Oil, Ma Bell and her offspring and Detroit gas guzzlers over potential victims of defective products and pollution.

10.   While senators technically left the liability cap in the bill untouched, the vote indicates that the Senate does not want to offer the industry any special legal protections.