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Conversely, it would impose a loss on victims who are not yet impaired, many of whom will incur higher medical costs to monitor their condition over time. Moreover, those victims would not be guaranteed to benefit if they became impaired later, because the funds available to pay claims might be greatly diminished by then. Another option that the Congress has considered would combine the approach of setting minimum criteria for impairment and establishing a public fund that would compensate victims according to a schedule reflecting the severity of injury and perhaps other relevant factors, such as smoking history.(16) Such a fund would be a narrower variant of the idea of replacing tort liability with public insurance, but some of the pros and cons of the broader idea discussed above would be less relevant here.
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Class Action Lawsuits and Lawyers

In addition, data about cases disposed of in federal court are available from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In 16 states consistently tracked by the NCSC, tort filings in general-jurisdiction courts grew from 189,520 in 1975 to 260,745 in 2000, which appears to support the common view that the number of tort cases is rising.
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