As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret

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Testing a G.M. vehicle. The Transportation Department says each life saved is worth $6 million.

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

Published: February 16, 2011

WASHINGTON — As the players here remake the nation’s vast regulatory system, they have been grappling with a subject that is more the province of poets and philosophers than bureaucrats: what is the value of a human life?

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