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44 Advocate (Texas) 1 (2008)

handle is hein.barjournals/adsbate0044 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE BAR LITIGATION SECTION REPORT FADVOCATE TABLE OF CONTENTS FALL 2008, VOLUME 44 EDITOR'S COMMENTS BY LONNY S. HOFFMAN .........................................3 CHAIR'S REPORT BY ELIZABETH E. MACK.......................4...................4 SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF THE LITIGATION SECTION OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS.........7 SYMPOSIUM: FIVE YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ON HOUSE BILL 4 SECTION 1 - GENERAL COMMENTARY REGARDING HB4 REFORMS THE PURPOSE, HISTORY AND FIVE YEAR EFFECT OF RECENT LAWSUIT REFORM IN TEXAS by Joseph M. Nixon........................9..... ....................9 A WORD FROM THE OPPONENTS by A. Craig Eiland..................................................22 THE IMPACT OF THE 2003 TEXAS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE DAMAGES CAP ON PHYSICIAN SUPPLY AND INSURER PAYOUTS: SEPARATING FACTS FROM RHETORIC by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman and Bernard Black ......... ............. 25 HOUSE BILL FOUR AFTER FIVE YEARS: BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE by Hugh Rice Kelly..................................................35 SECTION II - SPECIFIC REFORMS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE HB4-MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-PLAINTIFFS' PERSPECTIVE by Paula Sweeney and Jim M. Perdue, Jr. ........................... ......42 HOUSE BILL 4 AFTER FIVE YEARS-A DEFENSE PERSPECTIVE by D. Michael Wallach and J. Wade Birdwell.............. ................ 53 CLASS ACTIONS NAVIGATING THE ROUGH TERRAIN: CLASS ACTIONS IN TEXAS AFTER HB4 AND CAFA by Roger L. Mandel and Martin Woodward. .................................................... 70 IN MEMORIAM: TEXAS CLASS ACTIONS by Alistair B. Dawson and Geoff A. Gannaway.......... .......... 78 PUNITIVE DAMAGES EFFECTS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES PosT HB4, 5 YEARS LATER by Randall 0. Sorrels and Benny Agos to, Jr......... ................ 84 MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION THE TEXAS MDL EXPERIENCE FIVE YEARS LATER: THE PLAINTIFF'S PERSPECTIVE by Kathryn Snapka and David W. Holman............. .......88 MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION FROM THE DEFENSE PERSPECTIVE by Steve McConnico and Mark Hanna ....................................93

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