Liability insurance issues

The rising cost and reduced availability of liability insurance in recent years has been a concern for business, government, and consumers. This Editorial Commentary looks at such liability insurance areas as products liability, malpractice, local government liability, and other forms of liability insurance. n n The Editorial Commentary is divided into two sections. The first contains an introductory news article on liability insurance and a chart showing what States have been doing about this problem. The second includes editorials selected from newspapers from all regions of the United States. This section is arranged in reverse chronological order.,News Article Section. Action Set on Liability Insurance (Washington Post) ; What States are Doing (Washington Post) -- Editorial Section. Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ark) ; Atlanta Constitution (Georgia) ; Atlanta Journal (Georgia) ; Chicago Tribune (Illinois) ; Christian Science Monitor (Massachussetts) ; Dallas Times Herald (Texas) ; Detroit Free Press (Michigan) ; Houston Chronicle (Texas) ; Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho) ; Minneapolis Star and Tribune (Minnesota) ; New York Times ; Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) ; Portland Press Herald (Maine) ; Record (Bergen, New Jersey) ; Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia) ; St. Petersburg Times (Florida) ; Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) ; Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J,) ; Sun (Baltimore, Md.) ; Wall Street Journal ; Washington Post.,CRS 86-631 L,"April 1986",SuDoc# LC 14. 18/3