I.I.I.: Mad Cow Raises Tort Issues
NU Online News Service, Jan. 2, 12:15 p.m. EST?The discovery of a Holstein infected with mad cow disease last month could have "far-reaching insurance ramifications" and tort-related exposures for the U.S. property-casualty insurers, the Insurance Information Institute forecast.[@@]
The New York-based Institute in a statement predicted that legal actions would "undoubtedly ensue" if the mad cow-infected meat is found to have entered the food supply. But the Institute noted that personal-injury cases would not be an immediate cause for concern, since nobody has yet become ill and the latency period for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?the human form of this illness?can be lengthy.
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