WorksheetsERWC: Ripley, "What is a Life Worth?"
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
