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Highway Robbery : The Two-Decade Battle to Reform America's Automobile Insurance System /
"Ever since shortly after the first cars appeared on American roads, all states have operated under the "fault and liability insurance system," where a driver's degree of negligence, if any, determined whether they were entitled to receive compensation. Resolving disputes over fa...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "Fifty ways to lose your recovery" : so you think your auto insurance will protect you
- "Las Vegas has better odds than that" : studies detail the shortcomings of the fault system, and support builds for no-fault auto insurance
- Early congressional action : a consumer icon goes missing in action (1968-1974)
- How to get a Committee Counsel position on Capitol Hill
- "I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill" : a primer on how to move legislation in the 1970s
- "Van Deerlin's a really nice guy, but that Kinzler's a son of a bitch" : early House hearings and chairman-staff relationships (1975)
- The House Consumer Protection Subcommittee Reports a no-fault bill, only to see the Senate bill falter (1975-1976)
- New key players in the 95th Congress : Rep. Bob Eckhardt, President Jimmy Carter and Senator Howard Cannon tackle no-fault (1977)
- Eckhardt, Carter, and Cannon support no-fault, only to be betrayed by Senator John Durkin (June 1977-June 1978)
- One last chance : Eckhardt rejects late compromise and goes to full committee markup (July 25, 1978-August 1, 1978)
- Decompression, depression,and introspection, and a failed effort to secure support for a choice no-fault bill (Fall 1978)
- Experience with other liability reform issues leads to a surprise return to no-fault (1981-1996)
- Two decades of changes in state auto insurance laws fail to fix the major problems
- No-fault rises like a phoenix from the ashes, reincarnated as auto choice, with focus on lower premiums and choice (1992-2004)
- Let's all change partners and dance again : political support for auto choice flip flops (1996-1998)
- The rubber hits the road : congressional consideration of auto choice (1996-2004)
- Afterword : does auto insurance reform have another turn on the federal agenda?