Word: compensationitis
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It wasn't supposed to be like this. In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act--commonly known as the Superfund law--one of the boldest environmental statutes in U.S. history. It was a law designed to fit all circumstances. It covered existing plants whose owners...
Reform in France has always been dramatic, but never quite like this. The nation's annual Molière theater awards went unplugged last week, after performing-arts workers protesting a cut in their unemployment scheme stormed the Paris event and convinced stage hands to walk out. The scene verged...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI, head of the International Air Transport Association, on Brussels ' move to boost compensation for delayed flights
What are these judgments? Historically, copyright law has concerned itself, appropriately, with copying: the creator or copyright holder of a work had the exclusive right to control whenever a copy of their work was made. This is just about perfect with books or VHS tapes—we want creators...
While medical malpractice victims deserve appropriate compensation for their injuries, it is inherently difficult for juries to determine culpability based on the testimony of opposing expert witnesses—and even harder to place a monetary value on such intangibles as physical and emotional distress. Though the number of successful...