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Like the figures on jury verdicts, the insurers' profit-and-loss statistics are in sharp dispute. Consumer advocates insist that if adjustments are made for some quirks in insurance accounting (primarily involving the treatment of taxes, dividends and the rising paper value of investments), the industry made a net profit every year. The Insurance Information Institute, indeed, has acknowledged an industry profit after taxes of $1.7 billion last year, which it contends still amounts to a poor return...
...regulation," but promised to take a careful look at the Danforth bill. Plaintiffs' attorneys, needless to say, oppose all tort-reform plans. They commonly accuse insurers of creating a sense of crisis to enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims of malpractice or injury. More troubling, they insist that all the tort-reform ideas would undermine a fundamental principle of democracy: the idea that any citizen should have unrestricted access to the courts for redress of any grievances he might suffer. Robert Habush, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers, says of the tort-reform movement...
...abuse at a handful of centers have spooked insurers into indiscriminately canceling liability policies or demanding giant premiums. Mission Insurance Group, the chief provider of coverage for day-care centers, abruptly pulled out of the business last year. The handful of insurers that will still write day-care policies insist either on specifically excluding claims for damages arising from sexual abuse or setting up rules for strict supervision, such as unannounced visits by special investigators. Says Suzanne Grace, associate director of the Georgia Day Care Association: "The insurers are telling us, 'We don't care what your record is.' This...
...election, Kirchschläger's cautious assessment did little to clarify matters for the 20% of Austrian voters who, according to private polls, are still undecided about the Waldheim affair. Both Waldheim, the standard-bearer of the conservative People's Party, and Socialist Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After the allegations began to mushroom, polls...
Some legal scholars scoff at the idea that the separation of powers envisioned under the Constitution is endangered by hybrid officials like the Comptroller. They contend that the existing system of checks and balances is sufficiently vigorous to keep any one branch from dominating the others, and that to insist always on ironclad divisions would inhibit the flexible assignment of Government functions. Far more worrisome to many legal observers is the possibility that the court might invalidate Gramm-Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that...