Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim control to keep costs from spiraling. Associated Aviation Underwriters, one of the major airline-liability insurance companies, has already begun the process of talking with survivors and the families of victims of the Sioux City crash, trying to settle their claims quickly and dissuade them from going to court. Says Peter Magee, executive vice president of the company: "If you buy a ticket to get from Point A to Point B, and you don't make it there, then the legal burden is on me to explain why. Statistics show you're going to recover something...
...soon as the insurance companies know who the survivors are, they will dispatch a team of investigators to find out your financial situation, whom you're sleeping with and the status of your married life. Then they'll use this evidence to try to intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers during litigation. After investigators found that one victim was homosexual, insurance lawyers raised the issue of whether his life expectancy would have been cut short because of AIDS...
...victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that lawyers will continue to litigate these cases avidly. As insurer Magee puts it, "This whole business has come to take on a lottery mentality. If someone gets hurt this week, then they rush to court to see what numbers come...
...protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...
...cast them as Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. This provides all kinds of ironies on the brotherhood of master and man, but it also obliterates the no less important differences between them. Thus in the famous scene in which the two switch costumes so that the servant can court one of his master's ladies, Sellars' twins make a meaningless exchange of their leather jackets...