The Great Hartford Circus Fire : Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters /

On July 6, 1944, the Big Top suddenly caught fire at a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Hartford, Connecticut. The inferno killed 169 people, mostly women and children, and injured more than 550 others. Faced with hundreds of liability suits, the Greatest Show on Earth he...

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Autor principal: Cohn, Henry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
Temas:
HISTORY / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART ONE - THE FIRE
  • Chapter 1 FIRE AT THE CIRCUS
  • Chapter 2 THE RESCUE OF A CIRCUS
  • Chapter 3 ANATOMY OF AN ARBITRATION
  • Chapter 4 THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF BIG BERTHA
  • Chapter 5 THE RECEIVER'S JUST REWARDS
  • Chapter 6 FIRE SAFETY REFORMS
  • PART TWO - MASS TORTS AND THE ART OF CREATIVE SmLEMEHT
  • Chapter 7 THE MASS TORT MESS
  • Chapter 8 THE BANKRUPTCY "SOLUTION"
  • Chapter 9 WHY ARBITRATION SAVED THE CIRCUS
  • Chapter 10 ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND MASS TORTS
  • NOTES
  • SOURCE MATERIALS ABOUT THE CIRCUS AND THE CIRCUS FIRE
  • INDEX

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