Robert H. Joost, a lawyer and expert in automobile insurance
Robert H. Joost, 70, a lawyer from Capitol Hill, has battled bipolar disorder and the stigmatization of disability, died on February 19 Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville pneumonia and other complications of Parkinson’s disease. It was a Bethesda residence.
Mr. Joost, an expert in no-fault auto insurance, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, while a student at Harvard Law School. The disease, which has openly acknowledged, and first aid in the early years of his career to make a permanent battle for his work.
According to his wife, Elaine Joost Economides, Massachusetts institution tries to prevent consideration of the bar because of his illness, but he persevered and passed easily.
Once he was diagnosed, he did extensive research on the disease. Playing a report on a new medication, lithium, he expressed his doctors allow him to try. “Once the lithium, it was a miracle,” said his wife.
“What is the nature of his career, he did not have before this fight, nobody can say,” she added. “But what is remarkable, as always, and it maintained its commitment and focus on law and order”.
Mr. Joost was born in New York City and graduated with a degree in political science in 1957 from Yale University, where he won an award for ten Eyck oratory. A Harvard Law School, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated, magna cum laude in 1968. He taught briefly at the New England School of Law in Boston and has also worked for a New York City law firm.
In a New York Times, 1971 copies, he wrote the opinion: “automobile insurance up and the higher price, seemingly without end, the courts are on board the automobile claims cases, to admire the years, victims receive benefits less than half of the funds as contributions. ”
Mr. Joost says that the solution was the “no-fault” concept Sens, as Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) and Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.). He accuses his former employer, the American Trial Lawyers Association to assist the maintenance of a system that ignores the best interests of consumers.
He came to Washington in 1971 as witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Magnuson, and in 1972 the Committee met Commerce staff. Over the years, he designed a series of documents of the legislation on no-fault auto insurance and has to speak and write about its merits throughout his lifetime. He also built invoices on hazardous materials, endangered species, the Conrail system and other issues in addition to auto insurance.
In 1992, he published “and automobile insurance No-Fault law” and produces annual allocations until his retirement in 2003.
Mr. Joost has also worked as a lawyer in the Act version DC-Commission, as an officer of the judgement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as CEO of the correction of military records of the Coast Guard Court of Justice .
The approaching retirement, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but for reasons of public order, which the complainant. It is working to ensure that political restrictions for scientific study, particularly the restrictions on stem cells for research.
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