11.   If liability laws had been in place when he had his troubles, Yarsike said, he would be bankrupt today.

12.   Insurance shares rose amid hopes more companies will need insurance from April after the government tightens product liability law.

13.   Its passage in the House represented a major breakthrough for supporters, who had attempted for years just to get a committee hearing on product liability reform laws.

14.   Joyce said it might be easier for Congress to justify a product liability law than a law that would limit all damage suits in state courts.

15.   States, for two centuries the source of civil liability law, have for years been adjusting their rules for disputes over negligence and other harms.

16.   The company persuaded a lower court to have the case dismissed on grounds that federal law preempted injury claims made under state liability laws.

17.   The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly upheld a state liability law widely viewed as a significant legal threat to the tobacco industry.

18.   The House, in reforming product liability laws, has passed misguided restrictions on the ability of patients to sue doctors and hospitals for malpractice.

19.   The highest courts of at least seven states have struck down all or part of new liability laws in the last three years.

20.   The firm specializes in mass-tort cases involving product liability law.