Word: claimants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response from Lee Kreindler, 55, a highly respected New York City lawyer who is one of a small group that specializes in aviation accident law. Alpert had no business "butting in" on the lawyer-client relationship, said Kreindler. He added: "I know of no case where a claimant benefited by dealing directly with a liability insurance company." In the 1977 collision between two Boeing 747s on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, for instance, the insurance company tried to settle quickly with Kreindler's 41 clients for $58,000 apiece; after two years, Kreindler managed...
...time consuming. In the Chicago air crash case, he will have to show how much money his clients (so far, the relatives of 16 victims) need to be compensated for their loss, based on the projected earning power of the victim, age, dependence on and relationship to the claimant. He must also prove that American or McDonnell Douglas or both were at fault. To be sure, the airline and manufacturer have offered not to contest their liability and to settle - but only if the victims' families agree not to press for punitive damages. Designed to deter harmful acts that...
...framework" for peace between Egypt and Israel that has emerged out of the Camp David summit meeting is the greatest harbinger for lasting peace in the Western world in our century. President Carter has earned the Nobel Prize for Peace; there can be no other claimant in the field...
...Expansion of no-fault laws, already used by 16 states in automobile accident claims, to other negligence areas. In many cases, the main goal of a fast, equitable payoff to an injured claimant is totally obliterated by costly, delay-ridden personal-injury lawsuits...
...such representation tends to make consensus-building far more difficult than it need be. More importantly, from both the theoretical and practical standpoints, such a scheme raises the simple question of where to stop. Having set such a precedent, one is compelled to weigh the legitimacy of any other claimant groups that may arrive on the scene. When other groups (final clubs, athletic teams, commuters, Hungarian-Americans, short people) seek similar status, what criteria do we employ in selecting among them...