Declarations – Midwest
A Taking Is a Taking “It doesn’t matter if it’s one time or five times, if you intentionally damage someone’s property — which is what the Corps did here — it’s a taking. … The case law bears that out.” …
Declarations – Southeast
Not Experts “Most of us don’t want to be experts in insurance. We want to run our business and live our lives.” —Frederick Eppinger, CEO, Hanover Insurance Group Alabama Promise “The governor did not expect the process to take this …
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A Little THC “I don’t drink and drive, and I don’t smoke and drive. But my body is completely saturated with THC.” —Angeline Chilton, a suburban Denver woman who uses medical marijuana to ease multiple sclerosis symptoms and says that …
Declarations
Dishonesty Disallowed “Dishonest practices and financial irresponsibility have no part in the Kansas insurance industry.” —Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger comments on the sentencing of former Pittsburg, Kan., insurance agent Kregg Muninger. He was sentenced to 32 months’ incarceration …
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Shell Suit “Shell probably would not have filed this case if they did not have real fear about whether the spill plan would survive legal scrutiny.” —Attorney Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity said a pre-emptive lawsuit by …
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Watched It Coming “We stood in the parking lot and watched it coming. By the time it hit, it was like a whiteout.” —David Ison on the March tornadoes that left no building untouched in his small town of West …
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Don’t Text and Drive “Over time, it’s going to be part of getting people to get their priorities straight. When they’re driving a car, they need to be focused on the road.” —Pennsylvania State Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-York, commenting on …
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Failure to Gauge “This is not a situation in which the Corps recognized a risk and chose not to mitigate it out of concern for some other public policy (e.g., navigation or commerce); it flatly failed to gauge the risk.” …
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Smoking Danger “The best analogy is like it was trying to hold a bottle rocket in your mouth when it went off. The battery flew out of the tube and set the closet on fire.” —Joseph Parker, North Bay (Fla.) …
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RAND Health Care “Our analysis suggests eliminating the individual mandate would sharply decrease coverage, but it would not send premiums into a ‘death spiral’ that would make health insurance unaffordable to those who do not qualify for government subsidies.” —Christine …
