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What do you mean I'm not covered?!
I was reading the fine print on my new aircraft insurance policy, eventually
coming to the 12 exclusions. Most have to do with legal issues like flying
without a license etc, but item 12 reads:
"(12) for any loss or damage arising out of ionizing radiation or
radioactivity"
Apparently the insurance industry must be suffereing large losses from
radiation damaged, or contaminated aircraft! Perhaps I could start a new
business decontaminating perfectly good aircraft that the owners cannot
collect any insurance money from :)
David E. Hintenlang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8300
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> [mailto:radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu]On Behalf Of Sandy Perle
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 1:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Jury Finds Against Nuclear Plant
>
>
> Thursday September 17 12:37 PM EDT
>
> Jury Finds Against Nuclear Plant
>
> PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal jury on Thursday found two former
> owners of a nuclear fuel processing plant negligent on 19
> out of 20 counts in a class-action lawsuit filed by cancer patients
> and their families who lived nearby.
>
> Atlantic Richfield Co. was found negligent on nine out of 10 counts
> related to the former Nuclear Materials and Equipment
> Corp. that operated in Apollo, Armstrong County, from 1957 to
> 1986. Babcock and Wilcox Co. was found negligent on all
> 10 counts it faced.
>
> The jury, which deliberated for nine days before reaching its verdict,
> levied actual damages against the companies of about
> $52.6 million. Punitive damages will be determined next week.
>
> The plaintiffs had claimed they were sickened by uranium particles
> emitted by the plant.
>
> Atlantic Richfield Co. was cleared of one count related to a plaintiff
> who was born after it no longer owned the plant.
>
>
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> Sandy Perle
> Technical Director
> ICN Dosimetry Division
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> Costa Mesa, CA 92626
> Office: (800) 548-5100 x2306
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>
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> sperle@icnpharm.com
>
> ICN Dosimetry Website:
> http://www.dosimetry.com
>
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>
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> the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
> - G. K. Chesterton -
>
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