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...peddlers cannot be legislated out of existence, perhaps they can be put to practical use. Lobbyists should be charged at least $10 million a year for admission to "Gucci Gulch." Since there are 8,800 registered domestic lobbyists, those fees would go a long way toward reducing the deficit. Robert E. Brossman Wheeling...
...after all these years, humankind is still unable to agree on the location or even the existence of the female orgasm, then how can we come to agreement on more substantive questions like Americans still imprisoned in Viet Nam or the Soviets' cheating on arms control? Robert Marcuson Fair Haven...
...economy 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...
What happened? Lawyers and consumer activists charge that insurers are paying the price--or, rather, trying to make the public pay the price--for their own mismanagement and bad judgment. Liability insurance has always been a notoriously cyclical industry. Says Robert Hunter, head of the National Insurance Consumer Organization: "At the top of the cycle you write [policies for] everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle...
...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, "In my 25 years in law, this is as serious a threat to the civil justice system as I have ever seen. People have decided there is going to be a hanging, and it is just...