Ex-spy says U.S. indicted him for role in Pan Am case; former Mossad agent claims mail-fraud case is a move to discredit him

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New York sole practitioner Gerald Shargel claims the government is prosecuting his client, former Mossad agent and US government investigator Juval Aviv, purely to discredit him. As a member of the defense team for the airline in the bombing of Pan Am 103, Aviv wrote a report saying the terrorists used information about the CIA's protection of a Syrian heroin-smuggling ring to get through airline security. Now he is charged in a $20,000 mail and wire fraud case stemming from a 1991 security survey for GE Credit Corp.

Investigations, Political aspects, Spies, Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988, Malicious prosecution, Mail fraud

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Dow Corning gets some cash; plaintiffs will examine new payment from insurer

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Insurance company American International Group settled Feb 5, 1996 with Dow Corning, which had been battling 40 insurers over breast implant coverage. Dow Corning had settled for more than $300 million with about 12 other insurers over implant coverage. Dow Corning needs the cash to handle implants litigation. The company's deal to contribute $2 billion to a global settlement fund fell through when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 1995.

Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing, Surgical appliances and supplies, Surgical & Radioactive Implants, Analysis, Compromise and settlement, Settlements (Law), Dow Corning Corp., Prostheses and implants, Bankruptcy

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Parties and politics at ATLA meet

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The Assn of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) held its 46th annual convention in Aug 1992, and as the anti-tort-reform group met, a pro-products liability group placed an ad criticizing ATLA's position in a legal newspaper. In response to media reports that its tort reform stance was softening, ATLA replied that this was not the case. There were also meetings on breast implant litigation and a seminar by Melvin M. Belli.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Bar associations, American Association for Justice

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