Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most malpractice suits against lawyers have resulted from downright negligence or technical foulups: administrative and clerical errors, deeds filed improperly, and even failure to file a suit on time. Recently, a former patient at Prince George's General...
Hospital outside of Washington, D.C. hired an attorney to file a malpractice suit against the hospital. Mistakenly believing he had three years to file instead of six months as prescribed by local law, the lawyer delayed too long and thus booted the case. The client sued his attorney for negligence and won $100,000 in damages...
...diagnosticians agree: the patient can be moved. This week the Liberty Bell will be shifted from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to a pavilion one block away. The reason: during the summer months of the Bicentennial as many as 100,000 people per day will be able to file past the bell instead of some 14,000 in its present location...
Rating Bureaus. The prime targets of the Administration are property and liability insurers. These companies jointly organize rating bureaus, which in each state compile statistical information that enables insurers to determine average risks and costs. In many states the rating bureaus also add a profit markup and file a schedule of premium rates that state authorities generally accept. The Administration believes this practice makes rates higher than they would be if each company filed its own premium schedules, and it thinks the practice would be illegal under federal antitrust laws...
Reaction to the ending of open admissions was furious. Students staged protests and announced plans to file suit against the board of higher education. A CUNY sociologist released a report showing that most of those barred under the new standards would be minority students. Author Kazin, a professor at CUNY'S Hunter College, suggested that more than money was involved in the move to end open admissions. "There is an illiberal strain in the country," he said. "It is a revolt against the masses in New York, against the idea that so many people are allowed...