The first chapter reminds the reader of what a company director's duties are, and although company law books traditionally cover this topic, it is helpful to start in this way because discussion moves on to personal claims and the relevance of a director's
breach of duty more generally in other claims for relief.
Not exact matches
Today,
more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights
of the victims
of securities fraud,
breaches of fiduciary
duty, and corporate misconduct.
The 12 - year old scandal over the Australian Wheat Board's payments to the government
of Iraq has moved closer to final resolution, with its former chairman Trevor Flugge convicted today
of breaching his
duties as a director but cleared
of more serious charges concerning his knowledge
of the payments.
After launching four 401 (k) lawsuits alleging
breach of fiduciary
duty late last year, Minneapolis - based Nichols Kaster has filed four
more in 2016, most recently against Fujitsu and American Century's $ 600 million plan.
For example, when financial advisors — faced with a dizzying array
of share classes and sales charge structures — choose a fund that provides
more generous compensation, they may be accused
of breaching their fiduciary
duty.
Plan fiduciaries have been charged with
breaching their fiduciaries
duties under ERISA by selecting
more expensive share classes
of investments than were available to the plan.
But
more than that, it's a
breach of your own professional
duty as an ethical engineer too.
While this curtails the draconian remedy
of avoidance, insurers may find courts
more willing to conclude that there has been a
breach of this
duty, knowing that the consequences for the policyholder will be
more proportionate to the
breach.
While corporates are
more likely to be victims
of attacks, these claims could include:
breach of duty in contract and tort (customers / suppliers); negligence;
breach of the Payment Services Regulation 2009 (Reg 61) and the GDPR;
breach of s 13
of the Supply
of Goods and Services Act 1982;
breach of privacy for unauthorised disclosure
of personal data; and
breach of directors»
duties (Companies Act 2006).
An injured Maine motorcyclist must be able to submit admissible evidence that
more likely than not a defendant's
breach of duty (such as a right -
of - way violation) was the cause
of his injuries.
The Supreme Court
of Canada announced today that it would hear an appeal from the Mikisew Cree First Nation about whether Canada
breached its
duty to consult when drastically Read
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You must show that it is
more likely than not that the healthcare professional's
breach of duty caused your injury.
Badoux's practice spans a national and international scale as he handles a variety
of labor and employment litigation matters, including labor relations, harassment claims, wage and hour audits,
breach of fiduciary
duties and
more.
There is
more to this judgement — including an affirmation
of a school board's
duty to ensure a safe school environment, a finding that the police
breached section 8 and a exclusion
of evidence finding — but I'll end this post here in favor
of brevity.
Such malpractice actions require proof
of each element
of a malpractice claim —
duty,
breach, injury, causation, and damages — by a preponderance
of the evidence and may require the testimony
of experts with respect to
more than one
of these elements.
Negligence, or a
breach of the
duty of care, can include behaviors ranging from speeding to texting while driving to failing to properly monitor an expecting mother to insufficiently removing snow or ice from a sidewalk and
more.
[40] I agree with the plaintiffs that the case law supports the proposition that, notwithstanding there was no written agreement between the plaintiff and the defendants, the defendants
breached their
duties of loyalty, good faith and avoidance
of conflict
of interests and self - interest while working in the plaintiff's employ... [
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The absence
of disclosure matters, but surely accepting a tender without being instructed to do so by your client is an even
more obvious
breach of the lawyer's
duties.
We even handle the
more complex cases that most smaller and solo firms won't handle, such as
breach of fiduciary
duty, wrongful death, complex real estate disputes, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales agreements, and general counsel services.
Where policyholders are deemed to have
breached the
duty of fair presentation the Act now provides
more commercially flexible and proportionate remedies rather than the previous single remedy
of avoidance.
The other message that burns brightly throughout HHJ Hodge QC's judgment is that establishing
breach of duty is only one hurdle professional negligence litigators have to overcome: failure to prove causation means nominal damages; nominal damages means adverse costs; adverse costs means
more pain for the client; and there is no need for a crystal ball to anticipate that inevitable conclusion.
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more about our
breach of fiduciary
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El - Aref International Law Office successfully defended a corporation and its affiliates in a successful defense
of a fraudulent conveyance and
breach of fiduciary
duty lawsuit brought by unpaid creditors, in which the plaintiff had sought to recover
more than 6 million USD
As well, many companies are not aware
of gaps in «traditional» insurance products that
more specialty liability insurance products (i.e. media and Internet liability, cyber liability) are intended to catch, including
breach of fiduciary
duty to protect privacy
of client information, content exposure (defamation, intellectual property), damages caused by virus, third party financial losses due to system downtime, costs associated with data
breach notification following a cyber attack / hack, etc..
In other cases, it may be much
more difficult to prove that the defendant
breached the
duty of care by a preponderance
of the evidence.
January 27, 2015By Racing to the Courthouse, Insurers may be
Breaching the
Duty of Good Faith Owed to Policyholders
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Nursing home neglect on the other hand is
more about a
breach of a
duty owed then the intent to specifically and intentionally harm a resident.
Topics discussed include apprehension
of bias in tribunal decisions, the impact
of a
breach of the
duty of fairness, components
of the right to a fair hearing, and
more.
The Squamish and Lil» wat Nations (the «Nations») successfully claimed that the Province
breached the
duty to consult in its approval
of the 2011 Official Community Plan (the «OCP») for Read
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Secured dismissal
of eight claims, and obtained defense verdict and dismissal
of breach of fiduciary
duty claim in an additional claim in a matter in which a pension fund sought
more than $ 120 million from an investment consulting firm client.
John Batter's practice focuses on the defense
of public and private companies and their directors and management against
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The Applicants sought: 1) a declaration that the Respondent CEO has acted oppressively, in
breach of his fiduciary
duty to BitRush; 2) an order transferring shares
of BitRush from the Respondent UK company to certain other stakeholders; and 3) an order that the Respondent UK company's remaining shares in BitRush be... Read
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«One could scarcely imagine a
more correspondent set
of remedies as damages for fraudulent
breach of contract and equitable compensation for
breach of fiduciary
duty in relation to the same factual situation.»
If the defendant would have had to spend $ 1,000,000 to make the tracking system
more accurate and greater accuracy would only have increased the amounts due based upon unique users by $ 10,000, it would probably not
breach their
duty of good faith and fair dealing to refrain from purchasing this
more expensive and
more accurate tracking software, particularly if the defendant made a $ 10,000 allowance for the estimated number
of omitted unique users as a result
of using less accurate tracking software and increased compensation under the contract accordingly.
It was held that the alleged
breaches of fiduciary
duty were no
more than the equitable counterparts
of the claims at common law and that:
Attorneys who are planning to leave a law firm should have counsel to guide them and help prevent
breaching any fiduciary
duties to the firm; law firms experiencing the departure
of one or
more associates often employ counsel to prevent the departing lawyers from damaging the business
of the firm or improperly taking away client.
In some cases, a
breach of duty is admitted, while in other cases, one or
more defendants may have different versions
of what happened.
However,
breach of duty and causation can be
more subtle, and in a multi-vehicle accident, it may be necessary to retain an expert to testify as to what actually happened to cause your injuries.
Even if the respondent should have told the appellants in a
more timely fashion that the barn would have no pigs at the time
of closing, it did not amount to a
breach of the
duty of good faith, per Bhasin v. Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71, sufficient to trigger a remedy for the appellants given the terms
of the contract.
(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.
While the law does not prohibit acting for
more than one party, it is not possible for a licensee to act as the agent for
more than one client whose interests may conflict without being in
breach of their fiduciary
duties (see Sole agency above) to each client.