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...forest preserves until it can get a new liability policy on them--if that can be done at all--and Blue Lake, Calif. (pop. 1,200), has shut its skating rink, parks and tennis court. Hundreds of other towns in California and in New York State are "going bare." That is, they simply cannot get liability insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...personal injuries. But if Spence should be sued for malpractice or negligence, as is happening to lawyers more and more, he would have to pay any court-ordered damages out of his own pocket. "There is no market that will sell me liability insurance," says Spence. "I am going bare, and it is a frightening prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...much of a solution. In the mid-1970s, doctors organized a number of companies, promptly dubbed "bedpan mutuals," to write malpractice insurance at lower premiums. But several of the bedpan mutuals are said to be in financial trouble, and as a group they too are raising premiums rapidly. Going bare is an act of desperation: business executives and professionals who are operating without insurance almost unanimously voice deep worry that a single big lawsuit could wipe them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Lebanon. There, Michel Seurat, 39, a French Middle East researcher who was kidnaped in Beirut last May by the shadowy pro-Iranian Shi'ite-dominated terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, purportedly had been executed as a French spy. The terrorists released three black-and-white photographs that showed a bare-chested Seurat with unfocused, half-closed eyes, a shrouded figure in a closed coffin. Although his body has not yet been found, there appeared to be little hope that he was still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Right's Narrow Victory | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...that enable corporate customers to strip protection from its best-selling 1-2-3 program. Ashton-Tate quickly followed suit, abandoning copy protection for all its products. Said Chairman Edward Esber: "Sooner or later, you've got to trust your customer." Last week Microsoft announced that it is "going bare" on the last of its business programs, leaving protection only on its popular Flight Simulator game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Victory for the Pirates? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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