if They. aré. even “telling convention: jokés about ‘it Ae a i. ya - i i | [who arrived i in Hawaii and both imagined the other’s] oa vacation? {‘Fire destroyed my place but the i insurance}: -{ hidden ina floral bouquet. 8) had’a: flood. Wiped me a ‘Tjust taken: o ‘Ja nutshell: the owner is over his head in debt and | There’s no resale market. He leaves the car in the | parking lot of a second rate,watering hole.and in the [untrue and totally incapable of belief”. {specialist formerly with the RCMP and now working ..| that have profit motivations. TGoing to Blazes and Making Money: All. the Way]: \ . By a which haye held meri and waihen ‘tri sitent wonder: for al * Jean Sorensen, "least 2,000 years, are on dlaplay rae look:ie ropms made “ oe : po They aré:the:Vatican;art treastinda &: ssomibled atthe = : suring eae mo Metropolitan Museu of Art’ after years of nego and an ‘ait a cost anid to be about $8 million, They willbe shown ater Insurance Companies | “et America for many'years. Getting Burned | “but Fighting Back. . Jatnched five or. Ca years ‘ago-to. get’ ‘the show & as part of. ‘the’ ‘opening ‘celebration. of. ‘Canada’s: new: National Gallery! buiiding; then expected to be ready for 1980, the: ‘gallery’ 5. these days. did you hear about the two businessmen] centennial. But-that ‘new balding is ‘still’ only: a. -promise.- business. too’ depressed’ to” afford -ils. owner’ al * . enornfous paintings whlch ‘are reflected in related works in - the National Gallery. af, Canada’ ‘s. collection: in. Ottawa. company: paid off,”” says the. first, as-he sips'a drink}. 1. a “Subtitled: The Papacy. and Art, ‘The Vatican Collections’ out. But, | was insured too," ‘says’ the second. The ‘offera sampling of the art and relgious. treasures of all- the’ drinks flowed with the same rapidity and strength asf the condolences. Finally, the first chap leans over tof’ © Vatican's museums, jibr aries, art galleries, and. churches, the second, sizing him up with squinted eyes, and says: “tell me, how do you Start a flood?” _ Everyone laughs except for the insurance com- panies, Ripping off the insurance company is on the level of cheating on your taxes, No big deal. : Wrong. Ensurance companies have a new message on the marketplace. Flick that. bick, bud, and you may be lighting your own financial funeral pyre, In-]. surance companies want to be taken Seriously; not “WINNIPEG (CP) — In 1979, Winnipeg lawyers Bob McRoberts and Rick Henderson rocked the Canadian legal | establishment by advertising on radio and television. With 20-second spots trumpeting such things .ag- un- contested divorce foi $330, the fwo- -year-old -firm:.of © _ McRoberts, Henderson and Associates ‘was deluged -with , “new business and eventually opened a branch i in Saskatoon. _ Four years later, it remains the one law: firm, ‘to take advantage ‘of Manitoba’s unique position as .the ‘only province in Canada where lawyers, are permitted to ad- vertise on television. | High costs, tradition and a desire not to conipromise. their professionalism by appearing back-to-back with used car... salesmen are cited as reagons why lawyers shun the razzle- dazzle of the electronic: media, .._ - a Everytime a rough spot in the economy occurs, the same pattern shows up. There is an increase in the number of unexplained fires that occur to. personal and business property.- -. ‘Press headlines recently claimed ‘hard: time fisher- men in the Maritimes are‘deepyiting or torching| their..vessels so they dan colléct!on“the insurance coverage. Ensurance- Is upset. “'You can tell,”” he says with an casy assurance] whens as ex — refining and y margins fe for that comes from years‘of tripping up the smart guys He said Impérial supports dealers during price wars to with the fool proof ‘plans! WHat afe the tell tale signs? Sandberg pasies. Why did the encny? maintain customer loyalty, but does not expect them to slay that low for very long. — In B.C., insurance companies have won a land- mark case which is expected to-impact. on ‘future in- . “We can support the low prices in the stiort term in order to ensure customers are given a competitive price, but we. surance claims, The case-in question is:the Allison Motor Hotel in Vernonj'B.G:, which ‘was found _ couldn't do it in the long run. We are confident prices will return to a resonable level.”’- ablaze May 22, 1977 and declared thé work of an ar- sonist. The hotel's - owner wis"Subsequently found with burns on his body, his car keys were found inf . Don: McLachlan, co-owner of a Trail Gulf station, and Gordon Gattafoni, co-owner of a Petro-Canada outlet, both - said the price-culting in Castlegar affected their bysiness. the hotel, his car nearby, and he had returned home unexpectedly after telling" his family he was out of They said their Parent oil companies. guarantee them minimum price margins a litre so the retail price does not town.’ The hotel was having-business problems; the real estate market was off, and there was a $850,000 insurance policy on the property, The owner was] . affect their revenue,: “Tt must be costing thé oil ompany a fortune, " said McLachlan, charged. with arson but’ RCMP couldn’t make the case stick. The owner was cleared of charges, Hethen} : launched civil action against the insurance companies 3 te which were with-holding payment, - MacLean said Liapetlal normally would expect to In December 1980, Mr. Justice Albert Mackoff of | wholesale its product al 41 cents a litre and allow retailers a the B.C. Supreme. Court handed down a ruling. The four-to five-cent_ markup: insurance companies ‘didn’t have to pay. He declared He said there is no rational explanation for low prices in the owner's evidence ‘‘in every'aspect to be patently the West Kootenay, calling price wars emotional shootouts. . “Reason went out the door at 40 cents a Iltre. nm War: ridiculous. _ TRAIL, B.C. (CP) — A gasoline} price war that sent prices plummeting to.as.low-as 23.9 cents a litre in the West company executive, but loca! motorists are lining up at the’ < -Thé B.C. man key in bringing about the Allison Hotel fire decision. was Dan’ Lemieux,:an arson with the Insurance Crime Prevention Bureaux, a national body’ that ‘probes suspicious fires For in- surance companies. - | “Ina criminal trial you have to satisfy the judge ort... jury beyond a shadow of a doubt where as in a civil: trial you go on the degree of. probability,”* says Lemieux, adding iiisurance companies like the court decision and will not be as eager to shell out in blazes A textbook insight to “‘burning-for-bucks”’ has been: written by Simon’ Fraser Unjversity criminologist ‘student Teresa . Mitchell-Banks. The student, from Prince Rupert, authored the report which was judged best 1982 North American ‘student! paper by the U.S.,. Academy: of Criminal Justice] Science. .The report is an intriguing’ study of the] weaknesses of the insurance indusiry and also how! arson for. profit scams are rigged. It rates as'a must for fire deparment staffers required reading even if much of the case study is derived from U.S. files: -. One of the really tough elements that enter into ap-._ prehending the individual who burns for bucks isthat ° the crime filers into the white collar fringe. a check | of newspaper files across Canada finds fire officials, - lawyers, MPs, and other uper- crust or establishment. characters implicated | in arson charges over the years. a in the U.S. there Sn fire brokers; anions who will aufrange a fire, pay off fire ‘officials to- trample: evidence of instirance investigators to ignore it. , No one. likes. to think of kind. Mr. ‘Soandso as someone who commits arson [raud. But, it does hap- pen. And, more to the point, individuals who commit thesé property crimes: are needlessly asking firemen i der life and lim® to bail them out of their financial unders. . o Chriat roar Chicago ‘and San Francisco; and. will not. be seen gain in > ‘Bernini, the ‘mari responsible’ for the. “main. tar at's > Included in the New York’ show area bronze bust and two” “sis not. known. ‘It wag. carved in-Rome about! 135 -A'D..'by some dnkiown ‘Taber, :copylng, 2 Greek Rronze’ ginal Canadian lawyers advertise 7 address and times of ‘operation. a "meeting a year ‘ago. “Most lawyers are so conservative they wouldn " think’ of , ; 1979, opening the dog. to: McRoberts and Henderson and colleagues. and.Cantor calls him an embarassment te the ~ Kootenay is “absolutely ridiculous” according to one oil ~ What he did: say, it appears the survey.concentrated on the . "of: specialization,. not whether. the public » would, like to see _ more lawyers advertise, cluding the eacury of S rearm, ith ack cloak draped aver‘his’ sHowlder. and the® . itself Whales gpa ar, ih» cl me ett tthe \ Led bso mt a highent ideal of art among all the he seek sania that | i a, parte. .Now they’ have. been removed to’ yeveal hig vs bea And he has ‘been strengthened with interrial o wedeasrs ata pedestal in the fourth room of the Metropolitan show, surrounded! electranic! desler: — ‘like all: ‘works in the ‘exhibit ra are. or the Sistine Chapel; The: Mitasdious: number of sculptures by Gianlorenzo ‘Peter’s.and much of ‘ts internal and-extérnal decoi “and paintings by Zeonitdo-da Vinci, | Cari .thodern: art, Henri Matise, <>” ay The: Apollo. Belvedere has stood in one of the: Vatiean's 5 formal gardens, the’ ‘Belevedere, ‘sinc’ /at : ‘Teabt"“1509, and: - before that in another church garden, but its éarlier history * ‘in piece 1 from yh Bebe about 50.B.C.; ‘showing ‘reat, inspiration for generations ofa -artisis, » vee general’s monumental statue’ ‘which, it-is: said, bis widos ‘Had set-up in her own garden.for a-quiet remembrance him about: the. time of. the birth of Christ.. °:. utes The. cost of: insuring, ‘transporiing; mounting, displaying. vag cataloguing a show like thia is enormous. Phillip Morris. : Inc::. dating. from 3$0.B.C.: Since its discovery at the end of the Dark Agéa, this 2, 25. ‘alone ‘granted the: Metropolitan $3 million. Pan;' Arh” , meire-tall male nude, naw missing his left hand and right” provided the. transport. 4 An agency of the’ Uy s. governt ent : : ‘The show’ is a ‘panoramia of pre-Christian, Christian, and “non-Christian. art, with plenty. of saints’ and : ‘martyrs, | Reliquaries: and, altar. pieces,” copes. and other .churehly - regalia, : * Oldest: hittin work 6 on display Is the front of a marble *- sarcophagus’ from. about: 370 A.D., known as the Traditio - “Legis, showing a. youthful Christ, seated above heaven; ‘ représented by’ an angel’s Mantle, giving a scroll, of the Law - to Peter. 2. ; “There ara parts of mosaies fram Old St. Peter's ‘5, bullt on is ‘the site of Peter’s grave after his crucifixion about 65 A.D. and the site of: the first church ordtred-by the Roman eni: -peror, Constantine, ‘In the 320s. Thé cornerstone of the new and present St. Peter’s basilica was put in place in 1506 by . ‘Pope Julius il,- -and : ‘Urban VIII consecrated it in 1626. - Raphael and Bernini. were among its chief artists, aa “Bernini did two: major marble busts of his patron, Pope | -Urban VIO. One of ‘them is in the National Gallery | in Ottawa, while a bronze casting is in the Vatican show. The two: are’ nearly’ ‘identical. : : " An‘the: picture ‘éollection, two enormous. works, each measuring three-nietres tall, ‘iHustrate the early years of florid, romaniic, : Jifelike work in oils. :‘Mlchelangeld ‘Merisi, called Caravaggio from his ‘blr- thplace near. Milan in 1573, became a. style-setter in his | | churchly paintings: though he led a most unchurchly life. ° Caravaggio emphasized light and shadow, and always - - used live models for-his figures. He was so ‘determined to . captitre realism that some of his church commiissions were | _ tejected hetause he painted saints with dirty feet. . ' Caravagglo’s 6 The Deposition shows Christ’s body being. - . placed on a stone, slab or aboul to belowered into a tomb by - lwo men, ‘Nicédemus and St, John, ‘watched by. 3. sorrowing . Virgin’ Mary. ‘and Mary. Cleophas with her. arms , out- stretched dramatically. oo. The artist , ted it ‘in 1604, and ‘used. some s artistle ; freedom’ in the composition, since the Virgin and St. John «. were not known to be at the. entombment;- ‘necotding to : scripture, — ‘Peter Paul. Rubens, ‘the Antwerp artist. who became “a - leading exponent of baroqie art, studied Caravaggio’s work n:Rome inal ut. 1606, .and_after his re to. pwenp - Binaang aN ae. fi Me return Ay - Almost. an exact, copy of: Rubens’: painting — ” though "smaller at 88 centimetres in helght, and with Mary © . Cleophas moved to the left and made almost obscure —isin the National Gallery in Oitawa, = -The other huge painting i in the Vatican show’ is ‘Nicolas ‘Poussin's The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, a gory scene in which, ihe old Cleric, stripped: and lying on his blshop’s: “robes, i is havinghis bowels pulled out and wound on a winch. . ~" Tt was the: French. artist's first commission in Rome, - intended for the backdrop to an altar in a transcept of St. Peter's. A smaller. version of It also by Poissin, is In the National in Otlawa. ‘The Vatican’ exhibit now is open to members of the. Metropolitan and guests of its sponsors, but tickets are on _ Sale for the general public's admission from Feb. 261o June 12, any day but Monday. store owners,’” says well-kriown “Ontario lawyer Ed: Greenspan... --- “They are not, They are selling goods? The vast .majorily of lawyers in Manitoba do’ not: ad. : vertise beyond a discreet reference in the yellow pages. of © the telephone directory’ ‘listing, their’ name, pane rumber, Allan Cantor, prealdent of the Menitoba Bar. Asiocition; pays few: lawyers | care about advertising: Only a handful : showed up fer a ‘debate’t on the Subject, at a Bar Association : “It’s simply. not ‘a “burning issue, ” sald Cantor, whose © association represents’ ‘about 1, 100. of. Manitoba's 1,300 lawyers. . Winnipeg lawyer Vie. Savino. ‘disagrees. Poe He has been challenging an attempt by the’ Law, Society of Manitoba toset limits on legal advertisements, Savino says the restrictions contravene the Canadian Charter of Rights - an nd'Freedoms. ° -.” Savino, who works largely through Legal Aid: hasmade a - ‘reputation in Manitoba sticking up for. the underprivileged. ‘He has’ taken | on cases, involving Indian Jarid- claims and | represented: ‘tenants-in their. fights ‘with landlords... "He decided to ignore a‘Law Society regulation that bars lawyers from advertising specialized areas of practice and was fined $1,600 by the society for professional misconduct. ° ‘I feel quite insulted about being accused of professional . misconduct because of some stupld rule,”” said Savino, who _ has appealed the. decision. to the courts... » The Law’ Society first relaxed its rules on advertising i in allowing freedom to advertise in any medium. At that time,” lawyers could’ advertise prices and Specialties. an) : Savino views the suspension of some of those libertles a’ "year ago as ‘simply a case ofa few well-established firms’ - threatened ' by, ‘increased Competition taking action’ to protect, themselves; : ‘-His-stand has-not aitracted. much: publie support from - CEs eeae Guns wins be profession, : As for the Law. Society, it justifies its ban ont advertising. of specialties by saying there exists no way of dcensing or otherwise recognizing Jawyers who. -are competent lo. . practice in certain areas. . .. . Graeme Garson, the sotiety’s chief executive officer, “says the rule was put in v place pending a a ‘review by the society. . A public opinion survey ¢ on the imatter was s caminissioned andthe results of the survey are now being studied... 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