...For years trial lawyers have so dominated this legal arena that the companies they sued have taken to collaborating with their persecutors -- just to be put out of their misery. Some 70 of these firms are in bankruptcy, many of them willing partners in a racket that hands most of their assets to the tort bar and the 90% of plaintiffs who aren't ill, while the truly sick waste away in an overcrowded court system. Yet there are a few hopeful signs. Most concrete is Ohio's decision to pass the first statewide reform demanding that plaintiffs meet certain medical...