Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quicken, the American electorate is in a singularly sour and pessimistic mood. Not only is the public naturally worried about the economy, energy and inflation, but it doubts things will improve much. The country is anxious to find strong leaders -the evidence is overwhelming-and the public has little faith that Jimmy Carter has the ability, let alone the programs, to solve the nation's problems. Clearly, the search has begun for a candidate who is seen to have the sort of leadership qualities that Carter is thought to lack...
...findings of the TIME survey did not register much hope that these problems will soon be solved. Those questioned had even less faith in Congress than in the President to solve the energy problem. Despite the preachings of the Carter Administration, 63% said the recent gasoline drought was "exaggerated." Still, the problem of energy was rated a serious worry by 60% of those polled, perhaps reflecting the notion that whether the shortage was exaggerated or contrived, it still existed...
Egan fought back by hiring William Shernoff, a Claremont, Calif., lawyer whose specialty is suing insurance companies for dealing in "bad faith" with their customers. In 1974 Shernoff not only persuaded a jury to award Egan $123,600 in damages for lost benefits and emotional distress, but he also won a whopping $5 million in punitive damages. That was a blow to Mutual's image as well as to its pocketbook: under California law, punitive damages are awarded to punish and deter "oppression, fraud or malice...
...biggest in a series of punitive damage awards handed down by California's notably proconsumer juries, the Egan judgment shocked the insurance industry. It fears that juries everywhere will begin handing out huge awards in bad faith cases, despite the industry's complaint that genuine cases of wrongdoing are rare and reflect only isolated mistakes. Indeed more than 20 states in the past ten years have ruled that juries can award punitive damages in bad faith cases...
...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...