Burns Sees Tort Reform Coming to 'Every State'

AS VEGAS — Outgoing American Trucking Associations Chairman Fred Burns Jr. said that another 12 to 15 states are expected to provide “significant tort reform” in the coming year, joining 26 other states that already have done so.

Burns, president of truckload carrier Burns Motor Freight in Marlinton, W. Va., said Oct. 4 that the ATA Insurance Task Force, of which he was the founding chairman in 2001, would not quit until it had achieved “tort reform in every state.”

Burns, who made his remarks during a session of ATA’s Management Conference & Exhibition here Oct. 3-7, is the outgoing chairman of ATA.