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...excellent skills and strength came together last year in the final game of the Ivy League Women's Soccer Championships when she tallied all three goals against a helpless Brown team and boosted the Crimson to a first-place finish. The performance earned her the tournament's MVP award...
Egan fought back by hiring William Shernoff, a Claremont, Calif., lawyer whose specialty is suing insurance companies for dealing in "bad faith" with their customers. In 1974 Shernoff not only persuaded a jury to award Egan $123,600 in damages for lost benefits and emotional distress, but he also won a whopping $5 million in punitive damages. That was a blow to Mutual's image as well as to its pocketbook: under California law, punitive damages are awarded to punish and deter "oppression, fraud or malice...
...biggest in a series of punitive damage awards handed down by California's notably proconsumer juries, the Egan judgment shocked the insurance industry. It fears that juries everywhere will begin handing out huge awards in bad faith cases, despite the industry's complaint that genuine cases of wrongdoing are rare and reflect only isolated mistakes. Indeed more than 20 states in the past ten years have ruled that juries can award punitive damages in bad faith cases...
Insurers have taken some comfort from the latest turn in the Egan case: the California Supreme Court has ordered the punitive award to be cut. Noting that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated by the "passion and prejudice" of the jury. A new trial must now be held to set a fairer award, but the decision left no doubt that courts could continue to exact punitive damages from insurance companies...
...winner of a National Book Award (for The Oysters of Locmariaquer, 1964), Clark combines an elegant prose style with a richly lyrical gift. But her true metier is nonfiction, which better serves her discerning eye. Readers of Oysters or Rome and a Villa will not be surprised to find that the best thing in Gloria Mundi is her evocation of New England's character and countryside.-Annalyn Swan