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Article: NADER DENOUNCES BILL LIMITING LAWSUITS / BEFORE OKLAHOMA SENATE
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- March 4, 1986
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Ralph Nader, the nation's leading consumer advocate, on Monday
denounced a bill limiting damages on civil lawsuits i n an
impassioned speech on the floor of the Oklahoma Senate.
"The measures in this bill are cruel, unnecessary and vindictive,"
Nader said. "They limit the rights of the most vulnerable and
innocent people in our society - people who are brain damaged or
quadriplegic as the result of a car accident or defective product."
The bill, Nader said, is the result of a conspiracy by Lloyd's of
London and other foreign reinsurance firms to extort money out of
American business and professional people by cancelling their
liability insurance, without cause in many instances, and raising ...