Kenneth Feingold was on the radio this morning and was discussing his role in several mass settlement deals where victims of various events attempted to receive compensation through large funds set aside for that purpose. Honestly, Feingold is one of those people who are so easy to dislike; but he executed his responsibilities with a certain level
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1) It's not in anyone's interest to have the national airline industry dry up.
2) The airline industry has a lot of lobbyists and donate a lot of money.
You can decide which order those two should be in.
Personally, I think the whole thing should have been handled through FEMA; just because it wasn't a natural disaster doesn't mean it wasn't a disaster. Of course, at the time, FEMA wasn't being managed all that well...
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FEMA would have been a good route to go - I agree. I don't see FEMA as specifically being a Natural Disaster response only. This was certainly a National Emergency at any rate.
My issue is with the concept of these funds being established to protect the wrong people, and the law suites that went forward against the airlines. Seems like a rescuer's family suing an attractive girl for wearing a suggestive outfit after her rescuer got knifed when coming to protect her from a rape attack.
OK - maybe that was a little insensitive; but I think it's still sound.
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Obviously the courts have agreed with you on this seeing as several cases have been awarded against the airlines. I just question the logic and reason.
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Wait, of course you are.
Think about it for a while, maybe it'll come to you.
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