Sentences with phrase «controlled by a single company»

In the common law provinces, older reported cases are found in a handful of law report series that are now controlled by a single company.

Not exact matches

In a shock announcement BACS and Faster Payments are being run, as of today, by a company controlled by a single private individual.

In Germany a majority control by a single entity (person, or company) is not permitted by the league, and is the German law for clubs.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

But because the system is loosely organised and not controlled by any single government or company, there is no way to force organisations linked to the network to improve the security of their systems.

The healthcare industry is the single biggest customer of the debt collection industry, constituting 42 % of the collection market, versus only 29 % for the banking & finance sector.34 One stunning statistic from a 2003 Federal Reserve study is that over half of accounts reported by debt collectors and nearly one - fifth of lawsuits that show up as negative items on credit reports are for medical debts.35 Moreover, often medical debts are sent to debt collectors for reasons completely out of the consumer's control, such as disputes between insurance companies and providers, or even the result of the provider's failure to properly bill the insurer.

The size of the market controlled by a single private company is still amazing.

Designed by architect Martin Angelov, co-founder of Tuscon, Arizona - based transport design company Kolelinia Lab, the Halfbike has been characterized as a «low - tech Segway» which the rider controls and brakes through a single, central handlebar.

After canvassing the leading substantive - consolidation standards and cases, Judge Jernigan determined that consolidation is appropriate under any test; her decision turned on a litany of facts and factors, including that (i) the company's «nerve center» is its Texas headquarters and all payroll for employees is effectuated from there, (ii) the company's centralized cash - management system and three bank accounts, (iii) all debtor entities were controlled by common officers and directors, (iv) the existence of substantial intercompany claims, (v) credible testimony demonstrated that preparing individual schedules was extraordinarily difficult and required numerous amendments, (vi) a substantial amount of creditors treated the debtors as a single unit, and (vii) that credible counsel had determined that the primary assets of many debtors — D&O litigation claims — are jointly owned by the debtors.

(People read what he writes but almost no investors choose to operate long - term like him, I think it is still true that not a single public company has copied his innovations with corporate governance like «no pay for company directors», and governments have consistently rejected his and Munger's advice about controlling the looting of public companies by management.)

Bitcoin is an «open» technology: it's not controlled by any single individual, company or government.

The company notified owners that the six year old gadget - which allows functions previously demanding multiple remote controls to be controlled by a single smartphone app - would be unexpectedly rendered useless next March, in an email this week.

The company announced that it was overhauling its data privacy controls, making it easier for users to control how their data is shared by putting it all on a single Facebook page.

Bitcoin doesn't suffer from some of the same problems as other cryptocurrencies like Ripple, where the management is explicitly controlled by a single person, the CEO of the company.

This is not common in Europe and North America, where carriers have taken control of the market by limiting companies to selling single - SIM models in these markets.