Sentences with phrase «authority over litigation»

Superior Courts (sometimes referred to as District or County Circuit Courts in several states) generally exercise authority over litigation embroiled in larger sums of money, domestic relations, probate of estates of deceased persons, guardianships, conservatorships, and trials of felonies.

Not exact matches

November 13, 2009 — In response to Center litigation, the Fish and Wildlife Service reclaimed its decision - making authority over wolf management from a multiagency group hostile to wolf recovery, as well as scrapping the wolf - killing rule SOP 13.

Trivial observations (e.g., long lists of Member States that have at any one time been involved in access to documents litigation without any convincing conclusion following from such an enumeration) are succeeded by confused conceptualisations (e.g., the EU institutions are introduced twice as a distinct category of actor), or even outright overdramatization, such as when the authors argue that «[a] t one stroke, any authority of the Member States -LSB-...] over the release of documents transmitted to the EU was set aside [by Regulation 1049/01]» (p. 216), but neglect to mention that the Member States as legislators in the Council agreed to this revision themselves, or that the Council engaged in successive internal negotiations to settle the question of what was to be considered a «Member State document».

The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) spent # 143m on legal fees relating to clinical negligence claims over the 2008 - 09 financial year.

Mr. Arquit has secured approvals for some of the largest and most complex mergers over the past 25 years, and represented clients in high - profile antitrust litigation before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as numerous state and international competition authorities.

Represented energy company in litigation with FTC over its approval authority for divestiture under terms of consent decree

We will also explore civil rights litigation on behalf of those who have been sexually harassed by property managers, landlords, maintenance workers, housing authority officials, or others with power over access to housing, with a focus on the role that civil legal services attorneys have played — or can play — in these efforts.

He has over 20 years» experience defending clinical negligence claims on behalf of a range of healthcare clients, including NHS Resolution (formerly the NHS Litigation Authority) since its inception in 1995, NHS Trusts, the Medical Defence Union, Spire, BUPA, Nuffield, and med mal insurers, in particular Allied World.

In the past several months, the federal agency has claimed authority over three litigation funders.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

Claims Management Duties & Responsibilities Utilize efficient workflow organization to improve departmental efficiencies while ensuring effective client response and diligent analysis of claims, with extensive experience in both commercial and personal lines Provide relevant administration and direction to multi-million dollar staff budgets, quality control, fraud investigations, and complex claims reviews, earning denial authority over high - level claims cases Identify and develop talent among team members with focused training efforts, performance reporting and analyses, and operational efficiency initiatives Deliver continuous assessment of work force, while furnishing oversight and guidance regarding effective service strategies and techniques, loss liability monitoring, and claim litigation assistance Develop and implement the marketing and sales efforts of customer service team while tracking progress versus established internal and external benchmarks, providing disciplinary actions when necessary Construct customer service and claims team through effective staff hiring to aid in efficient operations and execution, delegating important tasks / assigments to line supervisors while providing branch - level guidance Aid in strategic planning and capital budgeting based on improving operating efficiency and reducing service - related production losses, collaborating effectively with senior - level management Maintain a strong working knowledge of important industry topics, company programs and policies, and overall regulatory environment, including state - level responsibility for process changes in casualty / PIP Address important client and staff queries, resolving them in an expedited manner Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude and professionalism

The service, available to any family lawyer in Ontario both during a litigation process or outside of it, would see parties sign a mediation - arbitration agreement with Fogelman, giving him authority over interim and procedural matters up to and including the exit pre-trial.