Product Description: In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the "politics of efficiency," or reform that is aimed at eliminating waste from existing policies and programs...read more

Product Description: This book provides a study of past, present and emerging mass torts with practical information drawn from examples such as asbestos. A must read for plaintiff and defense attorneys, judges, insurance and reinsurance company claims managers, risk managers, brokers, actuarials and executives, this book will help them: - Identify key data and assumptions necessary at each stage of the estimation process; - Learn how the incidence and prevalence of a condition is converted into claims; - Forecast liability exposure for risk management and conveyance of assets; - Assess reserve and settlement trusts for financial planning and company insulation; and - Review historical and new estimation techniques...read more

Examines the attempts of the asbestos industry to cover-up the dangers of asbestos and describes the development of the financial and legal problems of the Manville Corporation