1.   Both those bills were signed last month by Siegelman, who has never been known as a fervent proponent of tort revision.

2.   A comparable insurance aid package has stalled in the Senate over a vigorous debate about whether to include tort law revisions.

3.   Moreover, Schwartz and others say there is a far different mood in Washington now on tort revisions.

4.   The tort revisions provoked a mutiny from many Democrats who had supported the earlier version of the bill that passed a House committee three weeks ago.