Sentences with phrase «claim by a firm»

But the Access Bank had, in its statement of defence, described the allegations and claims by the firm as «false and baseless.»

The game recently was claimed by the firm to be the highest - earning digital console game of all time.

CCAs did huge damage to firms» cash flow when the LSC recouped hundreds of thousands of pounds legitimately claimed by firms, after inadequately qualified and poorly trained LSC staff carried out incompetent audits.

The Halliwells partners facing a # 21m High Court claim by the firm's administrators are set to enter mediation in an effort to avoid a lengthy court battle.

However, the committee noted that the exception set forth in Rule 7.4 (c) applies only to individual lawyers and not law firms, and thus «Rule 7.4 (c) does not provide that a law firm (as opposed to an individual lawyer) may claim recognition or certification as a specialist, and Rule 7.4 (a) would therefore prohibit such a claim by a firm.

They emphasize efficient delivery — not simply self - proclaimed superior «practice» — claimed by firms.

Indeed, a lawyer who departs with little or no advance notice to his or her colleagues, or deliberately conceals his or her plans to depart, is exposed to a claim by the firm for, among other things, breach of fiduciary duty.

Not exact matches

The privately held firm, which is not regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), claims its assets under management jumped more than tenfold to $ 225 million between 2009 and 2015.

A woman named Colleen Gallagher, represented by the same law firm, is also a plaintiff in a 2014 lawsuit in the same court alleging that Bayer AG's claims about the health benefits of its One A Day multivitamins misled consumers.

Besides a claim, there's no clear evidence Cambridge Analytica has since deleted that data — but Zuckerberg says they've agreed to a forensic audit by a firm Facebook hired.

But the Beijing - based holding firm, little known but founded by well - connected Chinese businessman Lu Zhiqiang, agreed to commit another $ 1.12 billion towards Genworth debt maturing in 2018 and life insurance claims charges, the statement said.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

A report released for the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) in 2016 by the cruise industry consulting firm G.P. Wild claims that 19 people go overboard while aboard a cruise ship or ferry every year.

It's not clear where Trump saw the claim that 2017 was the first year with 70 record - high closes, but Bespoke Investment Group, a Harrison, N.Y. investment firm, backs him up, reporting that 1995 had the second-most record - high closes, with 69, followed by 1925, with 65.

Many claimed to be pressured by social media firms, but the results were a PR black - eye that could possibly damage their public reputation.

Results of the probe released Wednesday contradicted claims made by whistleblower Christopher Wylie and described his involvement with the firm as being «very modest.»

Next up: Chinese advertising firm Focus Media, which Block claims overstated the size of its network of ad - bearing LCD panels by 50 %.

A statement of claim filed by law firm McGuigan Nelson LLP alleges, in essence, that Platinum CEO Shariff Chandran and his sister Chitra Chandran, a director, colluded with Calgary businessman Riaz Mamdani to drive Platinum properties into bankruptcy.

A California jury on Friday cleared venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers on all claims brought by former partner Ellen Pao in a high - profile sex discrimination lawsuit.

The senders claimed to own a patent that covered the concept of scanning a document and then sending it by e-mail — something almost every firm does.

Cambridge Analytica is a shady company owned by the British firm SCL Group — and, reportedly, in part by the right - wing - funding Mercer family — which claimed it could build models that identify persuadable voters by using six key personality types.

Cambridge Analytica claims they have already deleted the data and has agreed to a forensic audit by a firm we hired to confirm this.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Whatever the cause, every VC firm that pitched claimed to put the entrepreneur first, but Jon actually made me believe it by illuminating his firm's investment philosophy and the management team's entrepreneurial backgrounds.

Grier has previously objected to about $ 27 million in claims by Stone Street Partners — a private equity firm and consulting firm once known as Siskey Capital — and two of its employees.

The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that it claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.

A second whistleblower from the firm also emerged at a parliamentary hearing in April claiming Britons» personal data may have been misused by a pro-Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.

Last month, Pishevar sued a research firm founded by Republican campaign veterans, claiming it's trying to spread false allegations about him.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

In December, Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked by who was thought to be North Korean hackers; however, one security firm claims they've traced the hacking to Russia instead.

Facebook should also notify the 50 million Americans whose profiles were reportedly «harvested» by Cambridge Analytica — the consulting firm now suspended by Facebook that claims to have provided the «secret sauce» that drove Trump's electoral success.

The issue is the method by which it was rescued - who was protected, and who was not; why a consortium was not used instead of a single firm; why the claims of Bear's bondholders should be secure while the public bears the risk of the toxic waste foisted upon us.

While you could argue the choice of topic was motivated by the political and professional interests of the 40,000 - member provincial teachers» union and regulatory association — and someone is sure to — no one can claim Environics is not a quality public opinion research firm using solid methodology.

A breach of contract court judgement by timeshare exchange company, RCI Europe opens the possibility of thousands of claims by RCI members, says a London law firm.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Marsh cites examples of OSHA investigators looking into whistleblower claims at politically powerful financial firms like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, only to find themselves fired by OSHA.

The remark comes amid growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House.

While the secretive giant doesn't release Apple Watch sales figures, a report issued last week by the British research firm Juniper claims Apple accounted for over half of the 17 million or so smartwatches it says were sold last year, even though it was only in the market for three - quarters of the year.

Several prominent buy - side firms claimed that they had started taking steps to shift their behavior from a pure price taker to one of a price maker by directly posting prices and responding to RFQs.

In it there is an advertisement by a law firm trumpeting the multimillion - dollar settlements it has won for people willing to claim....

Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...

Impossible Foods is an example of a firm that has gained consumer support and investments from the likes of Bill Gates by marketing its products on the premise of sustainability, claiming that one of its burgers creates 87 % less greenhouse gas emissions compared to a beef burger.

An all - natural fermentation process using mushrooms to remove bitter and acidic qualities from food ingredients created by food technology firm MycoTechnology Inc. claims it will revolutionize the coffee and chocolate markets.

Its CEO, Kurt Barton, told SI that the firm manages «about $ 300 million» in assets, and he claimed thatTriton registered with the SEC (as is required by law of investment adviser firms with at least $ 25 million in assets under management) «roughly six months ago, around October.»

For example, deMause pointed out a study done by a consulting firm that claimed that $ 325 million in public spending on the Dallas Cowboys» new stadium in Arlington would generate $ 238 million a year in economic activity:

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

That may well be the case if you are very fortunate but the reality is that widely - held beliefs such as a firm mattress is always better if you suffer from a bad back are not actually supported by any overwhelming medical evidence to support the claim.

Board commissioners pointed to a study done last year by Barclay and Associates, an architectural and engineering firm in Oak Park, to support their claim the pool needed too much upkeep to maintain.

Public Citizen claims that by supplying US healthcare providers with product samples to distribute to parents, the firms have failed to adhere to the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes - notably Articles 5.2 («Manufacturers and distributors should not provide, directly or indirectly, to pregnant women, mothers or members of their families, samples of products») and 6.2 («No facility of a health care system should be used for the purpose of promoting infant formula»).