No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on H. Con. Res. 241, Expressing the Sense of Congress with Respect to Motor Vehicle Insurance and an Accident Compensation System, H.R. 4994, H.R. 6528, H.R. 4995, H.R. 7514, H.R. 3968 (and Identical Bills), and H.R. 3970 (and Identical Bills) Bills Relating to No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance, April 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, 1971, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 1342 pages |
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Page 230 - No act of the General Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to person or property; and, in case of death from such injuries, the right of action shall survive, and the General Assembly shall prescribe for whose benefit such actions shall be prosecuted.
Page 224 - The General Assembly shall have no power to limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to person or property.
Page 18 - To parents of a dependent student, as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954...
Page 304 - Upon such evidence, a jury of twelve Inexperienced citizens, called away from their other business, if they have any, are invited to retire and make the best guess they can as to whether the defendant, the plaintiff, or both were 'negligent...
Page 119 - When this policy is certified as proof of Financial Responsibility for the future under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility law of any state or province, such insurance as is afforded by this policy for bodily injury liability or...
Page 148 - The law's delay in many lands and throughout history has been the theme of tragedy and comedy. Hamlet summarized the seven burdens of man and put the law's delay fifth on his list.
Page 150 - Justice delayed is not only justice denied — it is also justice circumvented, justice mocked, and the system of justice undermined.
Page 244 - In the line of stringent requirements for safety devices or the abolition of employers' common-law defenses, the army of the Injured will still Increase, and the price of our manufacturing greatness will still have to be paid in human blood and tears. To speak of the common-law personal injury action as a remedy for this problem Is to jest with serious subjects, to give a stone to one who asks for bread. The terrible economic waste...
Page 150 - Overcrowded penal institutions, unremitting pressure on judges and prosecutors to process cases by plea bargaining, without the safeguards recently set forth by the American Bar Association, the clogging of court calendars of inappropriate or relatively unimportant matters— all this sends everyone in the system of justice home at night feeling as if he had been trying to brush back a flood with a broom.
Page 244 - To speak of the common-law personal injury action as a remedy for this problem is to Jest with serious subjects, to give a stone to one who asks for bread. The terrible economic waste, the overwhelming temptation to the commission of perjury, and the relatively small proportion of the sums recovered which comes to the injured parties in snch actions, condemn them as wholly inadequate to meet the difficulty.