Sentences with phrase «against firms for»

Reports emerged on Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department is poised to file a civil lawsuit against the firm for selling over 100,000 vehicles that emit excess diesel emissions.

Regulator confirms investigation after employment tribunal rules against firm for dismissing recruitment manager

But now the firm will have to hand over a large chunk of that amount, around $ 100,000 after a new ruling awarded costs against the firm itself for its behaviour.

This suit comes as another Indiana realty company just moved to dismiss the Indiana attorney general civil lawsuit against the firm for their allegedly fraudulent rent - to - own scheme.

Bodily Injury and Property Damage Liability (Coverage A) applies to claims or suits against your firm for bodily injury or property damage.

The Buyer filed a lawsuit against the Firm for the Broker's alleged failure to disclose the erosion on the property, alleging fraud and seeking punitive damages for the Broker's conduct.

Not exact matches

«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

While some Canadians have criticized Trudeau for not taking a firmer stance against Trump's politics, he said he prefers to maintain «a constructive working relationship» between Canada and the US.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Of course, for Kleiner to take any action against Pao while the lawsuit is pending would be legally suicidal for the firm — it would be a prima facie act of retaliation.

The loonie's plunge below 70 cents against the U.S. dollar in mid-January was bad news for energy companies but will boost the competitiveness of our high - tech firms.

Local IT firm Empired has decided against declaring a dividend payout to its shareholders, despite reporting a 135 per cent surge in net profit for the 2015 financial year.

He has now returned to the financial data firm he founded but is hardly giving up his high - wattage policy activism — leading campaigns for gun control and against smoking and obesity.

HOUSTON / CARACAS, April 23 - Two Chevron Corp. employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

It competes against recruiters, such as San Francisco - based Hired.com, which is looking for as many as 200 Canadian software engineers for Silicon Valley firms to hire.

The change is a win for Wintergreen Advisers LLC, a firm run by activist investor David Winters, who despite a tiny stake in Coke, has loudly agitated against the stock - compensation plan, saying it was a «raw deal» for investors.

Two Chevron employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

Chanos, known for his big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.

When James Lawrence and Iain Evans, two European partners, told Bain in 1983 that they were going to start their own firm, Bain stalled them in his office long enough for a deputy sheriff of Suffolk County to arrive with a notice that Bain & Co. had filed a lawsuit against them.

Plenty of firms offer safeguards for consumers and businesses against the threat of hackers, but what makes Silent Circle so unique is its backend network.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer rights action law firm that also represented consumers in a recent $ 400 million lawsuit against Apple (aapl) for price fixing, filed the New York lawsuit.

Security teams at large financial services firms and businesses were reviewing plans for defending against ransomware attacks, according to executives with private cyber security firms.

* INMARSAT: Investors in Inmarsat voted against the British satellite firm's remuneration report as they made clear their unhappiness at executive rewards for a year in which the company's shares fell 35 percent.

The rule, which will go into effect for new accounts in about eight months, will not prohibit individual forced arbitration — meaning individual consumers (as opposed to groups of consumers) could still be be blocked from going to court against financial firms.

A law firm filed a class - action suit against Groupon for allegedly imposing illegal expiration dates on its vouchers.

The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.

The USPTO will accept complaints filed against invention promoters / promotion firms and forward these complaints to the invention promoters / promotion firms for response.

While the USPTO does not investigate complaints or participate in any legal proceedings against invention promoters / promotion firms, under the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, the USPTO will provide a public forum for the publication of complaints concerning invention promoters / promotion firms.

Mr. Dodge, in a report for the legal firm Bennett Jones, has recently warned against premature fiscal tightening in the current economic climate.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

According to Bullard, «the DOL has laid out in detail written documentation examples of material conflicts of interest and the firm's program for mitigating them, which is a virtual roadmap — and also an evidentiary motherlode for bringing both arbitration claims and class actions against firms.»

This is why what happened last week was so shocking: the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital filed suit against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for fraud, break of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty.

When news broke in 2015 of Volkswagen's massive diesel emissions - cheating scandal, Hagens Berman was the first firm in the nation to file suit against the automaker for its egregious fraud, going on to represent thousands of owners in litigation and take a leading role on the Plaintiffs» Steering Committee that would finalize a $ 14.7 billion, record - breaking settlement for owners.

Lawyers for President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen withdrew defamation lawsuits late Wednesday against BuzzFeed and the political research firm Fusion GPS related to a dossier that included claims Cohen helped organize Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

In Germany, the firm was responsible for campaign videos warning against the country's supposedly exploding Islamisation.

So it is no surprise that some firms have been against the rule, even though many have been preparing for some of the changes it will bring.

The firm's proprietary Organizational Health Index, for example, allows companies to benchmark their own performance against a massive database of McKinsey's 600 clients worldwide — on a confidential basis, of course.

If in the future your back is against the wall and you end up needing another round of financing, you could lose ownership of your own firm if you don't ask for enough in the beginning.

«We are disappointed to see that Uber has selected a team of insiders to investigate its destructive culture and make recommendations for change,» they wrote in an Medium post published on Thursday, referring to the fact that Holder's firm has close ties to Uber and he previously advocated against fingerprint - based background checks for Uber drivers.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

On Monday, for example, news surfaced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against a Dallas - based financial firm seeking to launch what might be the largest initial coin offering (ICO) in history.

It's no longer actually meant to regulate the financial services industry as it pertains to the treatment of Main Street — it has been transformed into an advocacy for the banks, credit card issuers, insurance companies, mortgage originators and brokerage firms against what it sees as overzealous regulation and job - killing oversight.

The two most immediate effects: First is the hit to sterling, as uncertainty reduces nonresidents» appetite for UK assets against the background of the UK's record current account deficit; second is the hit to growth, as firms hold back on investment, and households increase precautionary savings.

For example, if two directors sit on the board of a family firm as well as the board of its publicly - listed subsidiary, this will not count against their Long View rating.

Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney for President Donald Trump, has dropped his defamation lawsuits against BuzzFeed and the investigative firm Fusion GPS over a dossier of information about contacts between Trump and Russia.

Other things equal, the appreciation represents a tightening of financial conditions for firms in the traded sector of the economy, but it has occurred against the backdrop of a steady rise in the terms of trade and, over recent months, a brighter outlook for the world economy.