stressed safety measures, but as relief for the parties litigant, either plaintiff or defendant, from a system which is notoriously uneconomic, they had not a word to offer. They simply stood pat on the position that the lawyer and the insurance company intensely dislike the idea of removing these personal injury cases from the accustomed tribunals. They appeared to believe that a nega- tive vote on this occasion would squelch the entire plan. The public, then, would have to endure the costly, tedious, and highly speculative system now in vogue, which constitutes one of the largest sources of income for half or more of the pro- fession and yields awards to a pitifully small pro- portion of the victims of accidents.
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