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Virginia. But he said testimony in public hearings has shown that the package as a whole could help the situation.
About 250 people, many of them former plaintiffs in personal injury lawsuits or widows of asbestos contamination victims, crowded into a committee meeting room to hear debate on the bill limiting punitive and pain-and-suffering awards.
Sen. Joannou said negligence victims and their families often “won’t be justly compensated for pain and suffering” if the bill passes. And Sen. Joseph V. Gartlan Jr. (DFairfax) said the legislature “is being asked to make a major change in social direction” without giving those adversely affected “a break in the system” as a trade-off.
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