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Gloves off for tort reform.
(From Insurance Day)
IT SEEMS the gloves are coming off in the US over the issue of tort reform.
Groups of plaintiff lawyers have reacted angrily to the description by Maurice Greenberg of lawyers who oppose tort reform as "terrorists".
It is alleged that the AIG chairman made the remark at a dinner in Boston to a group of chief executives.
Lawyers who were said to be "outraged" cited the tragic events of September 11 and decried the use of the term which they took to likening them to those who perpetrated the attacks on Washington, DC and New York three years ago.
It followed on from US teachers having similar complaints about the US education secretary Rod Paige referring to a teachers' union as a "terrorist organisation".
Given the justifiably raw nerves that still remain over the events in both the US and the Middle East, the use of the word may have been one that the AIG chief would ...
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