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Mairead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 07:27 PM
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Under the corporatocracy, plaintiffs' lawyers might be classed terrorists?
Edited on Fri Feb-27-04 07:27 PM by Mairead
BOSTON (Reuters) - The chairman of American International Group Inc. (AIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world's largest insurer by market value, on Tuesday called lawyers opposed to tort reform "terrorists" and said class-action lawsuits are a "blight" on the United States.

AIG Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's remarks came a day after U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige sparked an uproar when he called the nation's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization" during a meeting with U.S. governors. The White House said he later apologized.

In remarks to business executives in Boston, Greenberg likened the battle over reforming class-action litigation to the White House's "war on terror." AIG insures corporations against multibillion-dollar claims of damages in asbestos lawsuits, for example.

"It's almost like fighting the war on terrorists," Greenberg told Boston College's Chief Executives' Club. "I call the plaintiff's bar terrorists."


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4429155
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 07:31 PM
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1. asbestos lawsuits: a major problem for Halliburton?????
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-27-04 07:35 PM
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2. AIG Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg - now, there's a model
corporate citizen (IAW a piece of work) ...


Chairman of the Board
http://www.nixoncenter.org/boardac.htm

Bush Pioneer
http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/maurice_greenberg.html

he hangs with Corporate Terrorists
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