Sentences with phrase «companies responsible»

Courts began to apply the concept of strict liability to products in the 1960s and 1970s, determining that the costs of injuries from defective products should be borne by the companies responsible for the defects, not by the injured users.

Startup incubator Y Combinator, the birthplace of many of the tech companies responsible for our tech - heavy economy, launched a research fund to investigate the feasibility of a UBI in America.

This development is consistent with an increasing trend of regulators holding companies responsible for the cybersecurity failures of third - party service providers.

We are committed to making our communities safer by holding careless people and companies responsible for their actions, but beyond this, we are proudly involved in many local events and causes.

If there are multiple people or companies responsible for the accident, you could be entitled to compensation from all of them.

We can help you hold companies responsible for their dangerous products and get you the money you deserve.

The DC auto accident attorneys at our firm are highly skilled at holding negligent drivers and insurance companies responsible while remaining extremely sensitive to the needs of their clients and providing strong emotional support.

Firm founder Macon truck accident attorney Kathy McArthur has more than 30 years of experience holding trucking companies responsible for injuries and accidents caused by improper maintenance.

Celeste Evangelisti has devoted almost two decades of her career to representing individuals, municipalities and public water suppliers who seek to recover costs to clean up contamination from the companies responsible — those who put dangerous products into the stream of commerce without ensuring they will not cause extensive environmental contamination.

Contact us today to discuss your legal options with an attorney who knows how to hold these companies responsible for their actions.

Fortunately, individuals or companies responsible for these injuries are held accountable due to the product liability laws in the United States.

When the agencies or companies responsible for road construction fail to take proper precautions, a construction zone can become a car accident waiting to happen.

While that gets rid of the defective product, it doesn't replace or repair the damage that was caused or hold people and companies responsible for their roles in the creation and distribution of a faulty product.

With slip and fall cases, there are often multiple companies responsible for an accident — such as the owner of a property, the property management company, and the company hired to do winter maintenance — who all have separate insurance policies to compensate you for your injuries.

Thousands of lawsuits have been filed by women nationwide against the companies responsible for producing talcum powder, more commonly known as baby powder.

In the 1970's we pioneered litigation against companies responsible for asbestos exposure.

Celeste Evangelisti has devoted almost two decades of her career to representing individuals, municipalities and public water suppliers who seek to recover costs to clean up contamination from the companies responsible — those who put dangerous products into the stream of commerce without ensuring they will not cause extensive environmental...

(3) The contract regime was replaced by the tort regime as an elite academic effort to hold companies responsible for their actions.

The Act is intended to hold railroad companies responsible for not providing their employees with a safe workplace, and covers a wide range of potential harms that workers may have suffered.

«Trial Strategies for Holding Trucking Companies Responsible for their Employees» Negligent Conduct,» Illinois Trial Journal, Summer 2012.

Our Ocala office attorneys take this commitment seriously in everything they do, from holding people and companies responsible for their reckless actions to recovering the compensation necessary to help your family to try to heal following a serious accident.

Our law firm has a proven track record of holding companies responsible for illegal policies and practices that violate the rights of workers.

Citizens have a the right to be informed about the pollution and chemical disposal in their area, and the companies responsible (both public and private) must also be held accountable for their actions.

Baron & Budd is proud to offer the opportunity for anyone, regardless of means or status, to fight back against the powerful asbestos companies responsible for their asbestos exposure and resulting mesothelioma.

In 2015, after months of forest fires and choking pollution levels, the Indonesian government identified dozens of companies responsible for millions of hectares of torched forest and peat land.

Now DHL (Deutsche Post)-- one of the very companies responsible for delivering all those over-sized Amazon boxes to our doors — is getting into the electric vehicle business, selling a small, all electric delivery truck that it developed for its own operations.

photo: Patrick Barry via flickr Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products.

Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation's priorities, want more action by elected officials, corporations, and citizens themselves, and support a variety of climate change and energy policies, including holding fossil fuel companies responsible for all the «hidden costs» of their products.

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed after the Exxon - Valdez to hold oil companies responsible for their spills.

The EPA required companies responsible for large amounts of heat - trapping pollution to begin this year collecting 1,500 pieces of information.

The cost of the new program will be paid for by manufacturers, according to the paper, which will be billed by the companies responsible for hauling and transporting the waste.

The threshold for inclusion was at least 8 million tonnes of carbon (MtC) produced in a recent year, which focused attention on a manageable number of entities and highlighted those companies responsible for most of the current warming.

The BAN List includes a call to action to solve plastic pollution by a) drastically reducing and eventually eliminating the use of plastic for single - use - disposable products and applications, b) developing reusable systems for appropriate to - go food and beverage products, while c) advancing extended producer responsibility (EPR)-- which makes consumer goods companies responsible for financing collection and recycling — to manage the remaining plastic in commerce.

I've no doubt the proponents of this idi0cy have something like this in mind, but for tobacco, AFAIK, all that happened is that the companies responsible were required to stop.

Given that companies are agents of consumers, however, holding oil companies responsible is to hold oil consumers responsible.

And the very companies responsible for climate change want more oil to make climate change worse.

Even though companies responsible for two thirds of GDP would have been net beneficiaries from the tax, they still warned that it would «spell disaster» for manufacturing.

«Holding companies responsible for defrauding the public about basic science is a critical piece of enabling our country to make advancements...» The governments have been much more culpable of misleading the public than the corporations.

Other approaches have focused instead on corporate responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, with a 2013 study employing a carbon accounting approach to hold some 90 companies responsible for climate change.

New data has revealed that councils across the UK are investing more than # 16 billion in the fossil fuel industry — the companies responsible for the climate crisis.

I hope later a follow - up story could be possible letting the general public know which European countries specifically are overfishing this resource and the names of the parent companies responsible.

That is what they are called by independent environmentalists researching the role of power companies responsible for the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.

Credit bureaus, the companies responsible for your credit score, analyze various criteria to determine your credit score.

Companies responsible for services federal student loans include:

I surmise 2011 will be the biggest year ever in the e-Reader industry as a whole, and more particularly to the tech companies responsible for providing the parts and screens.

More people than ever before require care in the UK, but the councils and companies responsible for running them say they're out of money.

Now that you have had time to digest our list of the best and worst films of 2011, it is once again time to look at the companies responsible for those films.

Most if not all deforestation is ultimately driven by our consumption, so avoiding products and companies responsible for deforestation is the logical first step.

It also boosted the government's ability to respond to spills; provided up to US$ 1 billion to deal with individual accidents; increased penalties for oil companies responsible for spills; and required businesses to draw up exhaustive plans for handling spills.

Then, in early January, Spoelstra got what he described as a punch in the gut when LyondellBasell Industries, which owns the paper companies responsible for remediation of the river, filed for bankruptcy.