2/28/2004

Looks like the terrorists have multiplied: The chairman of American International Group Inc., 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. 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.' ...'I think it's outrageous to try to use the specter of terrorism against the trial bar,' ATLA President David Casey said. The group, which counts 60,000 lawyers, represents on a pro bono basis more than 1,700 families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United State, Casey said. Turns out not only wanting to be paid for teaching children, but also prosecuting aspestos makers for making people sick and standing up for victims of terrorism makes you a terrorist. I guess they really are everywhere.

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