ERWC: Ripley, "What is a Life Worth?"

Valuation:

• legal action

• judgment

• determination of a monetary value

• distribution, especially of money

Allocation:

• legal action

• distribution, especially of money

• turn something into an object of monetary value

• make up for a loss

Compensate:

• make up for a loss

• determination of a monetary value

• recipient of a benefit, usually monetary

• a civil lawsuit to remedy a wrongful act

"Garish" would best be what type of word?

• financial term

• emotion-laded word

• descriptive term

• profane

"Commodify" would best be what type of word?

• financial and legal term

• financial term

• legal term

• descriptive term

"Balk" would best be what type of word?

• ethos

• logos

• emotion-laden word

• descriptive

Kenneth Feinberg's strategy of equalizing the differences in the compensation to families of 9/11 was called...

• an "alternative"

• "fair"

• "functional...brutal...crystallizing"

• "Robin Hood"

The main reason Feinberg chose $250,000 as a limit to compensation...

• the Justice Department pushed for such a cap on punitive damages

• How much beneficiaries received from the Federal Government

• Pressure from the Administration

• How much beneficiaries received from the Federal Government when fire fighters and police die on the job

"Money aside, a lawsuit can be a/an _____ device like no other, forcing answers about what led to a death." (29)

• investigative

• ethical

• financial

• legal

"We're not trying to make you _____ whole. Where we can calculate the loss is in _____ loss." (28)

• emotionally; economic

• psychologically; emotional

• financially; economic

• psychologically; economic