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...Then - and this is crucial - don't get too excited. That first number may be quite high - in the millions for many. But you must, according to the rules of the fund, subtract all the money you are getting from other sources except charities. A court settlement would not be diminished this way, but this is not a court, Feinberg repeatedly points out. Deduct life insurance, pension, Social Security death benefits and workers' compensation. Now you have the total award the government is offering you for your loss...
...more than a dozen deaths and outlawed in seven states. Amnesty International has labeled them "tools of torture" and called for a worldwide ban. In one notoriously brutal incident, New York City cops zapped a teenager several dozen times. The teen filed suit and won a $600,000 settlement...
...Like Tip, Pim comes from eastern Burma. A member of the Akha minority, one of the hill tribes that populate that region, she was born in a settlement outside Kentung, an area of wild jungle mountains that doubles as rebel country and forms the heart of the Golden Triangle opium and amphetamine production zone. Pim remembers a tough but happy childhood raising chickens and working the rice fields on her parents' land, which clings to a steep ridge above a clear rushing stream...
...faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Thursday approved a decision not to accept any research funding from tobacco companies and their subsidiaries, opening the way for the school to receive funds from the 1998 settlement of states’ lawsuits against the tobacco industry. The move formalizes an unofficial policy that has existed since...
...adoption of the policy will allow HSPH to receive funding from the American Legacy Foundation, a public research group established by the 1998 settlement of the case brought by 46 states against the tobacco industry...