Sentences with phrase «egregious cases where»
While in egregious cases where a lawyer hired by the carrier has abused his or her relationship with the insured, the client, so as to favor the lawyer's source of income — the insurance company — the courts have responded to protect the insured's interests.
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/ Not exact matches
«We haven't funded a shareholder case for a couple of years now, so we are very strict on the view that we are only going to fund shareholder claims where we believe the conduct has been egregious.
This is an even less egregious case of what happened a few weeks / months back with Portland and Houston where Lilliard got testy with CP at the end of the game.
«Even where New York Courts have suspended attorneys for substantial periods of time, those cases involve more egregious and ongoing acts of misconduct, as opposed to Mr. Grimm's isolated and singular conviction,» his attorney Annette Hasapidis said in the Manhattan federal court filing from earlier this month.
Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.
«The contempt, when it's criminal in nature, is typically reserved for cases where there has been a failure for an effective civil enforcement, there has been particularly egregious conduct, repeat offenders or sentences where there have been violence or damaged property,» he said.
The SJC held that punitive damages in a discrimination case may be awarded only where the defendant's conduct is outrageous or egregious.
It will be for the courts below to work out just where less clearly egregious cases than those of DSD and NVB fall on that scale, but reading the judgment as a whole, the scope for doubt should not be overestimated.
Although the court clearly indicated the facts here were exceptional, this case helps demonstrate that where the employer or the employer's agent acts in particularly egregious ways Wallace - type damages are still readily available.
In the extremely narrow class of such cases where a spouse's conduct rises to the level of egregious fault, fault can be considered by the judge at trial, not in calculating an alimony award, but in the initial determination of whether alimony should be allowed at all.