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State Pool. The states are slowly moving to provide help. Indiana, whose Governor Otis Bowen is himself a physician, created a state insurance fund, established a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits, and set a ceiling on malpractice awards. Legislatures in Idaho and Maryland have enacted similar measures. New York lawmakers, seeking to avoid a doctors' strike, acted to assure malpractice coverage by passing legislation to create a pool made up of companies now writing insurance in New York and enabling the state medical society to form its own insurance fund as an alternative. Unhappy...
...told our drivers to pull over. We all got our I.D.s checked and then we were told the tailgate had to be closed, so California went by in blackness. We made up for it with a couple of joints. Somehow the laws of thermodynamics didn't apply to this weed because our drivers got wind of it and they pulled over to ask for some up front...
...governments are leasing 2,500 plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed to reduce moisture loss and weed growth by mounding the soil...
...Indiana, Governor Otis Bowen (who is himself a physician) recently signed a bill that limits the total award in any malpractice suit to $500,000, sets a ceiling on lawyers' fees, and establishes a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits. The measure also establishes a fund, to be created from a surcharge on insurance premiums, to ease the burden on insurance companies by covering any award in excess of $100,000. Idaho has enacted a law limiting liability to $150,000 in cases involving one person, $300,000 in cases involving more than...
...Weed Killers. Several chemical firms have given cash and gifts to Illinois and Wisconsin state officials who bought the firms' weed killers and deicers. So far, 70 highway superintendents, sheriffs, sewer-plant supervisors -and even the mayors of the towns of Piper City and Rankin, Ill.-have admitted collecting bribes in return for approving official purchases at prices from two to five times competitive levels...