Sentences with phrase «damages in law suits»

Pain, suffering, economic losses including income loss, health and rehabilitation expenses, and attendant care expenses, and loss of care, guidance and companionship are the focal point of most claims for damages in law suits brought by personal injury victims.

Not exact matches

They still want their brick installed in the walkway at the park at Greenview and Elmdale Avenues and are seeking a token $ 1 in damages, said Patrick Korten, a spokesman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C., public - interest law firm that filed the suit.

The Empire Center: New York laws encourage a proliferation of civil suits seeking damages for various kinds of alleged wrongful actions, known in legal terms as «torts.»

As bloggers have noted, this case will be one of the first tests of a new Texas law designed to discourage capricious libel suits by putting the burden on the plaintiff (Wakefield in this case) to prove that the defendants» speech has caused damage before the suit can go forward.

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Because these costs can quickly soar to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the event of severe injuries, property damage or law suits, a good liability policy is highly recommended.

A typical example of forum shopping, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is where the plaintiff institutes a suit in the jurisdiction with a reputation for awarding high damages, disdain for political gimmicks or filing several similar suits and keeping the one with the preferred Judge.

Laws are in place for some states to allow survivors to still file suit even if the normal time limitation period (that may start at death) has expired, removing the possibility of seeking damages in a wrongful death action before it may reasonably be discovered.

After detecting PCBs in the school during renovations four decades later, the Town of Westport brought suit against Monsanto Company (now Pharmacia Corporation) seeking recovery for property damage under Massachusetts law.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

The law firm of Bailey & Galyen provides legal representation for clients seeking damages in wrongful death suits.

In recent years, fraud and bad faith law suits on behalf of consumers can often result in significant exposure to punitive damageIn recent years, fraud and bad faith law suits on behalf of consumers can often result in significant exposure to punitive damagein significant exposure to punitive damages.

To insulate college personnel from personal law suits which allege misconduct while carrying out duties, section 24 of the BC Health Professions Act provides that «no action for damages lies or may be brought» against a board member or a person acting for a board or college «because of anything done or omitted in good faith.»

In such cases, property owners and landlords may be liable in a suit against them or a claim for damages, as they have a legal responsibility under premises liability law to provide a reasonably safe environment for their tenantIn such cases, property owners and landlords may be liable in a suit against them or a claim for damages, as they have a legal responsibility under premises liability law to provide a reasonably safe environment for their tenantin a suit against them or a claim for damages, as they have a legal responsibility under premises liability law to provide a reasonably safe environment for their tenants.

We advise clients to not delay in asserting your legal right to recover damages from negligent parties since the law does limit the time you have to file suit, if you are required to take that course of action because the negligent parties refuse to reimburse you for costs incurred.

Not all of these birth injuries result in damages, injuries or law suits.

Champerty and maintenance They are ancient doctrines in common law jurisdictions forbidding an agreement in which a person with no previous interest in a lawsuit helps maintain it, mostly by providing financing, (maintenance) with a view to sharing the damages if the suit succeeds (champerty).

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.

Payments on automobile insurance claims can help one pay for extremely expensive hospital stays, repairs to their vehicles, damages resulting from a law suit or any other a hundred different things that could potentially deplete one's savings and leave them in debt that could last a lifetime.

The more passengers you have in your car, the more damages you can be liable for in the event of an accident — not only are non-family members not covered by most standard insurance, they are also more likely to file law suits.

The victim's father filed a wrongful death suit seeking $ 30 million in compensatory and punitive damages and named the attorney's law firm as one of the defendants.