Sponsors Press Class Action Reform Bill Passage

NU Online News Service, July 7, 4:26 p.m. EDT, Washington?Sponsors of a bill designed to reform the class action litigation system?a top priority of the insurance industry?called for its swift passage Wednesday in a Capitol Hill press conference.

As the Senate prepares to again debate the legislation, Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., and Thomas Carper, D-Del., called on their fellow lawmakers to avoid letting a brouhaha over potential amendments to the bill halt its progress. At the press conference, the senators were flanked by three alleged victims of class action lawsuit abuses.

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