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...functioning. But in the past two years, liability insurance has become the kind of resource that oil was in the 1970s: prohibitively expensive, when it can be bought at all. The result is a pinch from which few can escape--not even liability specialists like J.B. Spence or Robert Rearden...
...Rearden, president of Duncan Peek Inc., an Atlanta insurance brokerage, earns commissions selling policies at soaring premium rates. But when the time came to renew his own professional liability policy, his carrier wanted to jack up his $13,000 premium by 861%, to $125,000; Rearden had to scramble to find another company that would only triple his premium cost. "And that's me, and I'm in the insurance business!" wails Rearden. "That's what I mean when I say this crisis is affecting everybody...
Gerald R. Rearden, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, said the spill "could have involved a very, very small amount [of phosphoric acid]" and might have been caused when the acid came into contact with "very small shards of metal...
...machine shop operator was taken toCambridge City Hospital as a precaution andreleased. He exhibited no symptoms of an adversereaction to the chemical, Rearden said...
...spill did not appear to pose a seriousthreat to the Harvard community. "Right now, itappears as though it's a very minorcontamination," Rearden said. He noted the fastactions of the worker to contain the spillprevented a more serious contamination...