Political Quotes

“I just wanted to add a couple more points to my opening remarks on this amendment, because I think they elaborate a little more fully on some of the concerns I raised at that time. As I mentioned in my comments, the need, in my judgment, for expanding the underlying substitute is based on my belief that there is a need to provide the same sort of protections to nonprofit organizations and civic organizations, and so on, that we are trying to provide to product manufacturers. I just wanted to enter into the Record a couple of examples that have been brought to my attention in recent days in the context of this debate. The first is a case of a battered women's shelter in Evanston, IL. A few years ago, the Junior League of Evanston sought to establish such a shelter. An exhaustive search of liability insurance coverage revealed that no insurance company would provide coverage until the shelter operated for 3 years without being sued. No one was willing to serve on the shelter board unless it had liability insurance. So the shelter was never established. That is the kind of, I think, unhappy outcome which the current system with respect to joint and several liability has created.”