Word: keeton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August the State Legislature surprised everyone by passing the Keeton- O'Connell Basic Protection Plan, co-authored by Robert E. Keeton, professor of Law. Dukakis, who sponsored the bill in the House, worked closely with Keeton to convince legislators to support his bill...
Despite the House's overwhelming approval, the Senate rejected the Keeton-O'Connell plan in favor of an alternative proposed by Governor Volpe...
...Governor's bill, which the House rejected more than a month ago, will new return to the House, but Dukakis s already making plans to have the bill shelved a second time. He said yesterday that he will try to throw out the Governor's bill and substitute Keeton-O'connell...
Known as the Keeton-O'Connell Basic Protection Plan, the scheme promises easier pay-offs and lower insurance rates. If the Senate passes the bill, Massachusetts drivers who are involved in auto accidents will receive compensation from their own insurance companies, and not from the company which has insured the negligent driver. A driver's guilt or innocence in an accident will, heretofore, no longer have any bearing on whether he receives compensation for injuries...
Earlier this week the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association invited all city bar associations to an emergency conference to discuss the bill. Dr. Calvin Brainard, professor of finance and insurance at the University of Rhode Island, and a former insurance underwriter, submitted a 71-page report on Keeton's scheme to the Trial Lawyers Association. Brainard argued that the new plan would benefit bad drivers and that it would not reduce rates...