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AFTER years of inconclusive talk, no-fault automobile insurance has suddenly been whiplashed into a matter of national debate. Last year only Massachusetts had a law enabling auto-accident victims to collect payment for personal injuries without having to establish who was to blame. Florida adopted a no-fault plan this year, and an Illinois no-fault law is presently before the courts. Legislators in at least 25 other states, including New York, New Jersey, Virginia and California, are expected to consider their own versions during 1972 sessions. There is perhaps an even chance that Congress might settle the matter...
...vocal opposition to no-fault has come from trial lawyers, who earn more than $1.4 billion a year in fees from auto-accident cases. Though their self-interest is obvious, the lawyers raise some troubling points. For generations it has been considered only just for an injured person to collect damages for the intangible costs of an accident, including psychological "costs" like long periods of suffering. Under the "purer" forms of no-fault, some victims of another driver's carelessness or negligence would not be allowed to sue for such damages...
...least the vast majority of auto-accident victims would be assured of prompt, equitable settlements. Senator Warren Magnuson, one of the sponsors of the national no-fault plan, foresees another benefit. At present, he points out, hospitals have no assurance that accident victims will ever be able to collect enough money to pay for emergency treatment, but under no-fault insurance companies would settle such bills quickly. Thus, he says, hospitals would have a major new incentive to improve ambulance and emergency-room service...
Harvard went ahead 2-0 in the first period on goals by Bobby McManama and Bobby Goodenow, but Proulx didn't have much to do with either one. At 1:36 McManama was all alone to collect the rebound of a Dave Hynes rocket that bounced off of the plexiglass out in front of the cage...
...initial break concerned the identity of "Helga R. Hughes," the mysterious woman who used a Zurich bank account to collect $650,000 in publisher's fees meant for Howard Hughes. On first hearing that the depositor was a woman, Irving feigned astonishment and confusion. "One day I hear she was a blonde," he said at his farmhouse on the Spanish island of Ibiza, "the next that she is a brunette. I don't know where the truth is." A great many people instantly noted that Helga Hughes' description matched to a suspicious degree that of his wife...