Because these oral assurances were contradicted by the written provision of the policy, which specifically excluded payment for illness due to an existing condition, my husband and I asked for something in writing to confirm what we were told.
But the most spectacular bargaining chip of all was tailored to New York Republicans: a broadly written provision that limits the liability of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owners of the World Trade Center, as well as private security companies, the insurance industry and just about every other entity associated with the terrorist attacks.
And a poorly written provision in the Affordable Care Act renders families ineligible for subsidized policies if either parent can sign up for an employer-sponsored plan, even if the plan's premiums for family coverage are unaffordable.
Congress wrote provisions in the health care law that have already gutted the power of the advisory board.
Supporters say the law balances what they see as the long unfair practice of lenders writing provisions in mortgage contracts that allow them to collect lawyers' fees from homeowners when the lender successfully forecloses.
REVIEW YOUR WILL Because estate exemptions rose and tax rates decreased in predictable steps — from $675,000 a person and a tax rate of 55 percent in 2001 to $3.5 million and a 45 percent rate last year — lawyers often wrote provisions into wills that put the maximum amount into trusts that could be transferred tax-free.
"In times of war," he wrote, "provisions and military stores may be moved with facility in sufficient quantity to answer any emergency".
He led the Senate's Science and Technology Caucus and helped write provisions promoting science and math education in a recent bill that calls for doubling the budget of the National Science Foundation NSFF).
Sasha learned that I, as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee from 1979 to 1989, had been involved in writing provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 that he found particularly stupid.
Since they do not directly bear the cost, these executives regularly agree to or demand broadly written indemnification provisions that act to absolve executives from liability for their wrongs.
