Pennsylvania seeks limits on product liability lawsuits
The Pennsylvania General Assembly debates Senate Bill 585 to curb product liability suits, aiming to control insurance premiums. Measures would restrict suits to manufacturers, introduce comparative responsibility, set time limits, allow a state of the art defense, and permit evidence of post sale modifications while citing juries awarding excessive damages as motivating factors.
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Pennsylvania General Assembly
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
Pennsylvania
Afl-Cio Council
Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Afl-Cio
State Chamber
Annuities Rise as Life Insurance Sales Grow Faster
Sylvia Porter explains that 1977 ends with life insurance policies totaling nearly 250 billion dollars, with 1978 set to surpass it as annuities rebound. The piece notes annuity sales grow faster than life insurance and answers common questions from Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies about policy premiums and lifetime income guarantees.
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies
Boston
Mass
Life insurance basics and policy provisions
Questions about life insurance cover fundamental policy aspects and common features. It explains increases, amounts, and timing. how much coverage is typically needed. term versus cash value options. convertible and renewable provisions. group versus personal policies. and whether beneficiaries must be related.
New Year 1978 TV Plans Mocked and Poked Fun
A Washington column parodies New Year's Eve TV lineups for 1978 urging readers to avoid bowl games and goofy network programming. It itemizes fake pressure groups targeting ABC NBC CBS and lampoons hosts and shows while noting real broadcasts from ABC CBS and NBC including Bob Hope and Mardi Gras footage.
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Los Angeles
ABC
Gabe Kaplan
NBC
Tonight
John Davidson
Cole Pleasant
Memphis
Tenn
Robert Hegges
Suzanne Somers
Dick Clark
Times Square
CBS
Guy Lombardo
Paul Williams
Leslie Uggams
Mardi Gras
New Orleans
Uncle Willie and the Milkman Widow Tale
A melodramatic piece chronicles Uncle Willie eloping with Ella Rountree, seizing her bank account and 12 room home, their troubled marriage, and Willie's violent attempt to confront a milkman who exposed her infidelity. Willie loses house and money. the milkman survives and sues.
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Uncle Willie
Kila Rountree
Willie
Momma
Ella Rountree
Ella
Murtagh
Billa
Unk
Elli
Border smugglers profit from Mexican to U.S. labor trade
Investigators report a widespread border smuggling network operating from Nogales bars into the United States. Agents describe guiding illegal workers across by foot and by car for fees, with routes into Idaho and Illinois. The case centers on Vincente Tellez, once deported, now reemerging in Chicago, while Border Patrol's Carl Judkins pursues him.
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Washington
Nogales
Mexico
United States
Rio Grande
Idaho
Parol
Carl E. Judkins
Vincente Ruiz-Teller
Illinois
Ahab
Judkins
Tellez
Chicago
Border Patrol
Tucson
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Sylvia Porter
American Council of Life Insurance
Wales
Sife Insurance
Darren McGavin
Kolchak
ABC Evening News
Harry Reasoner
Barbara Walters
Anwer Sadat
Laverne and
Shirley
Mobil Oj! Corp
PBS
Shana Alexander
James Kilpatrick
Caligula
Claudius
Japan
Filla
Eila
George
Hal Bernton
Doug Foster
Bernton
Foster
Jose Garcia
Phoenix
Garcia
By Jack Andarson
Nogsles
Arizona
U.S
Har Clantr
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