Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAPTION: CRASH PAYMENT...
...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...
Plaintiffs' lawyers have a strong financial incentive to keep people from settling without representation, since it is virtually certain in crash cases that damages will be paid. But a study last year by the Rand Corp. found that litigation often does not yield the jackpots that the public imagines. Rand found that airlines and other defendants paid victims' families less than half their average "economic loss," the value of what the deceased would have earned in a normal lifetime. Jury verdicts averaged $599,000 per victim. Still, the odds are good enough and the stakes high enough to ensure that...
...plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...
...aftermath of a fiery DC-10 crash, an elite cadre of aviation lawyers is squaring off with insurers in a fierce legal battle. Millions of dollars may be involved...