Word: tort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigilance. Accustomed to success in translating their private anxieties into public activity -- protesting a war, toppling a President, taking over universities -- they turned to perfecting their immediate environment in the 1970s, pressing the Government for help and suing anyone who did not share their finicky obsessions. Safety regulations multiplied, tort law boomed, liability-insurance rates soared...
...everyone shares Lipsig's view of his usefulness to society. Critics of big damage judgments blame aggressive liability lawyers for causing insurance rates to skyrocket and for putting the bite on city governments whose "deep pockets" are filled with taxpayer dollars. Says Blair Childs, executive director of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobby group in Washington: "Harry Lipsig typifies the system where no one wins but the likes of Harry Lipsig. A few others win big with him. But society is hurt...
...Wyoming, among others, strongly objected to the $20,000 payments: "Honor doesn't come with a dollar sign on it, and you don't buy it back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks there is nothing to apologize for. It is also wrongheaded. Under the American system of tort law, wrongful harm is routinely acknowledged with cash payments. But to those interned, the formal apology and the removal of the stigma of disloyalty may count for far more than the cash. The country is also apologizing to itself for trampling its own core values. As the Senate bill says...
...initials inside little circles. The cashier at the A&P? The jogger with the Westie? The Captain confesses that he is much taken with that lanky public defender on TV, the one who never smiles and who dresses like Alcott and Andrews. Late dinner conversations on civil rights and torts (Have a tort?). How about Alcott, or Andrews...
...central protagonists of the PTL turmoil, meanwhile, continued to parade their opulent life-styles. The couple breezed into San Francisco on July 11 as guests of their flamboyant tort lawyer, Melvin Belli, who is now laying the legal groundwork in his effort to have Bakker reinstated at PTL. During their week-long stay, the Bakkers were billeted on Belli's 105-ft. ocean-going yacht, The Adequate Reward, and were taken to parties, dinners and exclusive stores by Belli's wife Lia. Tammy enjoyed a makeover at Lia's favorite hair salon, 77 Maiden Lane...