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Mattox, board facing claslati
on insurance liability crisis^,.,
AUSTIN (AP) — The head of the
State Board of Insurance and Attor
ney General Jim Mattox clashed
Wednesday over whose job it is to in
vestigate causes of the current liabil
ity insurance crisis.
Chairman Lyndon Olson told
Mattox, who has been seeking a spe
cial public hearing by the insurance
board, that if he had evidence of
wrongdoing, he should prosecute it
himself.
Mattox replied that “since the
board has chosen not to carry out its
responsibilities” the attorney gener
al’s office “will use every power
within our authority to do this job.”
Olson told Mattox earlier in the
day that the board has no immediate
plans of calling a special public hear
ing on the liability insurance crisis, as
Mattox requested.
“The State Board of Insurance is
proceeding in accord with our best
judgment and within the constraints
of our authority to seek solutions to
today’s liability insurance problems
and to assist Texas consumers in
finding coverage,” Olson said in a
letter to Mattox. “We believe that we
are moving properly and success
fully.”
Mattox asked the board March 7
and again March 19 whether it was
going to call a special public hearing
to investigate why many small busi
nesses and local governments are be
ing red-lined out of liability insur
ance coverage.
Mattox said in a news release that
many small businesses, such as day
care centers and nursing homes, and
professions, including ministers of
the gospel, are being denied cover
age despite the fact that no claims
have ever been filed against them.
Olson said in his letter that the
board has received no specific facts
about any Texas insurance compa
nies violating state laws regarding
unfair competition and unfair prac
tices.
"Your letter mentionsfaiiil
have come to your knonli juld
you forward none,” Olsonlt
you have specific infomyi |/~'j
your possession which
board action, please fonrM
information immediately gy Jean
Olson also said it washAy
standing that the attornr >e not onl
bad authority to prosecuti ielding k
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planned on liability insurar fM Stude
formation could be submi nd Lt. Be
upcoming hearing on the ®Station
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Court orders company
to rehire farm worker
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Su
preme Court ruled Wednesday that
a Hidalgo County company must re
hire a union farmworker who was
fired after her complaints about san
itation facilities brought county
health officials to the fields.
The United Farm Workers called
the decision a significant victory.
“It provides the workers with a
strong moral backing for their ef
forts to bring about humane work
ing conditions in the fields,” said
James Harrington of Austin, who
represented Maria Guadulupe Vas-
quez in the lawsuit.
Vasquez was fired by La Joya-
based Bannworths Inc. on Nov. 5,
1982, after two Hidalgo County
Health Department officials came to
check on her complaints. She had
become an organizer for the UFW
earlier that year.
In her complaint, she said all Ban
nworths workers were required to
share a single drinking cup and that
the portable toilets in the fields were
filthy.
Vasquez had worked for Ban
nworths periodically since 1973,
usually laboring in the fields for 10
hours a day and always at minimum
wage, according to court records.
She won the lawsuit, but appealed
when Hidalgo County Court-at-Law
Judge Richard Garcia refused to or
der Bannworths to rehire Vasquez.
She was awarded $3,000 to cover
wages lost in the period from when
she was fired until she filed the law
suit. The trial court also barred Ban
nworths from discriminating against
Vasquez if she was ever rehired.
The Corpus Christi Court of Ap
peals affirmed the trial court, but
the Supreme Court said Wednesday
the lower court decisions fall short of
remedying the harm.
“The trial court abused its discre
tion in failing to order Mrs. Vas-
quez’s rehiring because, in effect,
the court’s order allows Bannworths
to continue to discriminate against
Mrs. Vasquez by refusing to hire her
because of her union membership,"
Justice Sears McGee said in his opin
ion for the unanimous court.
Bannworths officials were not
available for comment after the
Wednesday ruling.
Harrington praised the Supreme
Court ruling.
“This is another example of the
Supreme Court putting bite into
union laws that exist to prevent re
taliation,” he said.
Harrington said he expects Vas
quez to return to work at Ban
nworths this summer. She has been
working part-time. He said she
would continue to aggressively mon
itor conditions in the company’s
fields.
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BROWNSVILLE - i^ ysno to si
Reagan has warned that en'are m
Texas county is in thefn H she wai
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authorities are resolutel o fight h
what has to be done —w ays a wor
ing to keep straight faces. , but inst
( amei<in < omits Nher:jinto it.
Perez s stalwart boys alrea i’t believe
a half-dozen L’zi subn rards.”
guns .uni ,i st.K k ol M-ltis inn, an a
It only he could (dsaid she
county commissioners tear her rii
for a dozen or so riothelr he host r
shields, the sheriff quippwto kill he
deputies willingly wouldirq told her
trenches as a first lined ed the se
against any Sandinistainvaif
County commissioners, f
ever, on Monday turned# 1
Perez’ request to purctap
dozen riot helmets, shieli 1
shotguns.
Turned down locally,
sent President Reagan a
Wednesday requesting Jl!)!
in “equipment aid” tobeetii
department.
The sheriff said he had ins*
planned to telegram the P
word request because of it
gency, but opted to sendfi
mail because of the $25J
gram cost.
5 escaped prisoners still at larg
GAINESVILLE — Five escapees from the Cooke
County Jail, including a man described as part of a
modern-day “Bonnie and Clyde” team of bank robbers,
remained at large Wednesday, authorities said.
Authorities regarded the men as armed and danger
ous, Sheriff John Aston said.
Lawrence Byrom, 56; Thomas Bromfield, 25; Steven
Dooley, 22; Patrick Lewis, 17; and Ismail Bruno, 17, es
caped between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday after sawing
a 19-inch-wide hole through the bars in a dayroom sky
light, Aston said.
He said he believes they used five hacksaw blades
found at the scene.
The men, who Denton County deputies said may
have taken clothes and two rifles in a house burglary,
also are believed to have stolen a van, authorities said.
Officials said the men could have had outside help in
the escape, speculating that someone might have
handed the blades through the skylight. The jailer dis
covered the escape while on regular hourly rourir
ton said.
Byrom pleaded no contest last July to fourbai r
bery charges. His wife, Alice Elizabeth Mariei f
pleaded no contest to two of the heists. Byrom* 1
cused of 14 North Texas bank robberies than I
$572,592, authorities said.
Byrom was sentenced to 50 years in federal I
and was awaiting trial in Gainesville on a statet
charge. Mrs. Byrom is serving a 25-year sententi [.
At the time of their arrest, authorities corapi f
case to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a IP I
of bank robbers.
Authorities said it was not the first time than
had escaped from the Cooke County Jail.
After an April 1950 escape, Byrom avoided!
ties for three weeks before surrendering at hisiK
Fort Worth home. Byrom later served 14yearsi« |
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