Sentences with phrase «expanding civil liability»

In addition, two newly - enacted laws risk expanding civil liability through class actions.

GEORGIA Georgia's Supreme Court in recent years issued decisions that significantly expanded civil liability, and that troubling trend continued in 2017.

Some are known for welcoming litigation tourism or as hotbeds for asbestos litigation, and in all of them too many judges seem more eager to expand civil liability than to respect precedent and the policy - making authority of duly elected lawmakers.

«Ranked # 2 is perennial hellhole California, where lawmakers, prosecutors and plaintiff - friendly judges inexorably expand civil liability at the expense of businesses, jobseekers and those desperately in need of affordable housing,» Joyce explained.

# 2 CALIFORNIA If most lawmakers in Sacramento and the reliably generous plaintiffs» lawyers who write campaign checks to keep them there can be likened to the Symbionese Liberation Army of the Berkeley - radical 1970s, then most California voters can be likened to the Stockholm syndrome - suffering heiress Patty Hearst, coming to love their captors even as hundreds of new laws — many of them designed speci cally to expand civil liability on business and property owners — are enacted each year.

Not exact matches

This week, Broward (Florida) Circuit Judge Richard Eadea expanded the traditional limits of liability in injuries caused by texting in another way, when he granted the plaintiff's motion to allow punitive damages in a civil negligence suit.

The L.A. office opens with strong capabilities in areas including cyber risk, sports and entertainment, and complex product liability litigation, and will expand to cover the firm's full set of capabilities spanning all areas of civil litigation, corporate transactions, regulatory compliance, and risk - avoidance counsel.

Therefore, the Act is much broader than just advocating gender pay equity, instead, the Act expands equal pay on the basis of membership in the protected class which includes, among others, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy or breastfeeding, sex, gender identity or expression, disability or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait of any individual, or liability for service in the armed forces.

Consequently, as we enter the Bribery Act enforcement era with expanded corporate criminal liability and a new corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery, the trend to civil recovery is likely to be short lived and viewed as a pragmatic «stop gap» response to apparent deficiencies in the criminal justice architecture rather than as a long term enforcement trend in settling overseas corruption cases involving companies.

During the 1970s there were a variety of laws passed on subjects such as consumer protection, tenant rights, environmental protection, workplace safety regulation, and intellectual property that generally speaking expanded the scope of civil liability.

Rest stops and expanded shoulders are available for drivers to pull over, and it is always better to be late than to be responsible for a tragedy and potentially encounter significant civil and criminal liability.