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With fees ranging from one-third to 40% of what damage payments he wins, Shernoff is understandably sensitive to suggestions that he and his clients are reaping windfalls. With the California Trial Lawyers Association, he is pushing for a bill in the California legislature that would allow judges to give 25% of whatever punitive damages are awarded in bad faith cases to any group or agency established as an insurance industry watchdog...
...Florida, the issue was psychologists vs. other mental health workers. The house passed a bill that covered the licensing of psychologists and included the certifying of other professionals. But the senate refused to be rushed into passing it. Said State Representative George Sheldon: "The bottom line was not protection of the public but a closed shop." Congress will have the same headache in framing a health insurance program...
David Jones, chairman of Humana Inc., complains that Chrysler's previous management made bad decisions, "and now they expect somebody else to pick up the bill." Pertec Computer Chairman Ryal Poppa warns, "Soon the Government will be asking us why we complain when they want to regulate our businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs...
About half the 500 seniors graduating from Detroit's Cooley High last spring walked out of the ceremony clutching something besides their sheepskins-voter registration cards. That experience proved to be a dry run for a bill signed into law this month by Michigan Governor William G. Milliken to encourage a good portion of next year's 133,000 Michigan high school graduates to vote in the 1980 presidential election. The new law provides that high school principals or their deputies can issue registration cards on the spot and act as registrars to certify that a student meets...
...Michigan bill, similar to a Georgia law signed by Governor Jimmy Carter in 1971, was strongly supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We have to make it as easy as possible for these kids to register," says Joseph Madison, director of the N.A.A.C.P.'s voter program. The percentage of voter turnout in the U.S., especially among the young, is steadily declining. Madison points out that of the 3.4 million blacks age 18 to 24 in 1976, 38% registered and only 26% voted. Of the 23 million whites in that age group, 53% registered...