Automobile Insurance and Compensation Study, Hearing Before...91-2, October 7, 19701970 - 52 pages |
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... person who needs hospitalization is injured have continuous payment coverage , or how many policies just pay them for their injuries at the time the lawyers settle and that is the end of it ? Are there many that go on with a person who ...
... person who needs hospitalization is injured have continuous payment coverage , or how many policies just pay them for their injuries at the time the lawyers settle and that is the end of it ? Are there many that go on with a person who ...
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... person is injured . What is our problem , essentially ? Secretary VOLPE . I think all three of those . Senator PASTORE . All three . Therefore we come down to the very meat of the nut . Isn't much of the trouble that we are experiencing ...
... person is injured . What is our problem , essentially ? Secretary VOLPE . I think all three of those . Senator PASTORE . All three . Therefore we come down to the very meat of the nut . Isn't much of the trouble that we are experiencing ...
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... person if he can't get any recovery at all . What difference does it make , if a person is maimed or injured on the road and he is in the right and he has to wait 5 years before he can get a hearing before the courts ? Isn't that really ...
... person if he can't get any recovery at all . What difference does it make , if a person is maimed or injured on the road and he is in the right and he has to wait 5 years before he can get a hearing before the courts ? Isn't that really ...
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... person can identify with those situations . However , the most significant change I propose today is the move away from the " fault " liability system of insurance . Few consumers realize - until the accident happens - that the present ...
... person can identify with those situations . However , the most significant change I propose today is the move away from the " fault " liability system of insurance . Few consumers realize - until the accident happens - that the present ...
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... person has two choices : go without rehabilitation when it would help or risk bankruptcy to finance it . He faces similar problems with rent , food and clothing costs . The Uniform Motor Vehicle Insurance Act seeks to overcome these ...
... person has two choices : go without rehabilitation when it would help or risk bankruptcy to finance it . He faces similar problems with rent , food and clothing costs . The Uniform Motor Vehicle Insurance Act seeks to overcome these ...
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Page 44 - House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, and to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents, as it deems necessary.
Page 26 - Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to enjoin such acts or practices, and upon a proper showing a permanent or temporary injunction or restraining order shall be: granted without bond.
Page 5 - Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part of the Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or taxation of such business by the several States.
Page 26 - Except as otherwise provided in this section, amounts received by an employee through accident or health Insurance for personal Injuries or sickness shall be Included In gross Income to the extent such amounts (1) are attributable to contributions by the employer which were not Ineludible In the gross Income of the employee, or (2) are paid by the employer.
Page 25 - If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the Act and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 26 - Amounts received through accident or health insurance for personal injuries or sickness (other than amounts received by an employee, to the extent such amounts (A) are attributable to contributions by the employer which were not includible in the gross income of the employee, or (B) are paid by the employer...
Page 44 - Such reports and answers shall be made under oath or otherwise, and shall be filed with the Secretary within such reasonable period as the Secretary may prescribe.
Page 20 - State" includes each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, and American Samoa. (9) "Interstate commerce...
Page 26 - The district courts of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and the United States courts of any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction of violations of this title or the rules and regulations thereunder...
Page 44 - Commission issued under subsection (a) of this section, issue an order requiring compliance therewith; and any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.