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No-fault insurance plans, al-
ady law in seven states and
eing considered in 27 state legis-
itures from California to Rhode
iland, are facing stiff opposition
rom a well-organized and well-
inanced lawyers’ lobby.
In some states, the lawyers are
eing aided by insurance com-
anies and civil rights groups.
Fourteen states defeated no
fault insurance proposals in 1972
legislative sessions, and lawyers
specializing in personal injury
litigation, especially the Ameri
can Trial Lawyers Association,
are trying to block passage of
no-fault legislation in 16 of the
27 states considering such bills,
an Associated Press survey
showed.
The lawyers’ tactics differ
from state to state, but Leonard
Ring, a spokesman for the Ameri
can Trial Lawyers Association,
said the objection is usually on
the same grounds that most no
fault proposals “either eliminate
or strictly limit the right of
people to recover for disability or
pain and suffering that don't
have a fixed monetary value.”
Ring said the limitations affect
both those victims who try to
settle claims out of court and
those who file suit to recover for
damages.
Although no-fault plans vary,
the concept is similar “reimburse
ment for auto accident victims
from their own insurance com
panies for bodily injury and lost
wages regardless of who was at
fault in the accident.
In Illinois, the trial lawyers
group spent $100,000 in an un
successful lobbying effort to have
the bill killed.
But after the no-fault proposal
was signed into law Sept. 2, 1971,
the Illinois Trial Lawyers Associ
ation filed suit.
The State Supreme Court re
cently declared the law unconsti
tutional on the grounds it dis
criminates against certain groups
of accident victims.
The Hawaii Trial Lawyers
Association, an affiliate of the
national group, waged a cam
paign of television and news
paper advertising that some law
makers say influenced the legis
lature to table no-fault measures
in committee.
The Colorado Farm Bureau
and a group of independent in
surers lobbied heavily against
no-fault in the current session
of the state’s General Assembly,
where a bill was killed and fur-
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In Wisconsin, several insur
ance groups, including the Inde
pendent Insurance Agents of
Wisconsin and the National As
sociation of Independent Insur
ances, opposed six no-fault plans
introduced in the legislature.
Stanley Du Rose, state insur
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the opponents “ see no-fault in
surance as an inevitable develop
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Light flashes being experienced
by astronauts possibly could re
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to three Colorado State Univer
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The researchers said the so-
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highly-charged galactic particles
through the retina of the eye.
Drs. John Lett and Kenneth
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radiation biology department, and
Dr. Eugene Paulter of the physi
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said their research on the repair
mechanism of the DNA molecule,
which controls the functions of
nearly every body cell, indicates
the flashes destroy cells of the
retina.
The particles, they said, also
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This phenomenon is not experi
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most of the harmful particles
never reach the earth’s surface.
“It appears to us,” Wheeler
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trip to Mars could accumulate
enough damage via the ‘flicker
flash’ phenomena during such a
voyage that a partial or total
impairment of his sight might
result later in life.”
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