Sentences with phrase «identifying changes in the laws»

One is the difficulty of identifying changes in the laws, regulations and forms.

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Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

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Federal Policy Changes to Increase Food Recovery FLPC has identified several key areas, in addition to misleading expiration date labels, where current laws create barriers to reducing food waste.

As the law currently stands, in order be granted a gender recognition certificate and have the sex on your birth certificate and other identifying documents changed, you must apply to the Gender Recognition Panel, providing proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permanently.

One of the biggest problems has been a set of changes made to immigration law in 2016, introducing considerably more stringent requirements for identifying people who need help.

The WRONG way to think about federal policy in education is to identify the myriad problems plaguing our schools, and then dream up federal solutions, as if Congress could pass a law and magically things would change in the real world (and without any unintended consequences).

However, numerous targeted businesses sought to identify loopholes in the new legislation and initiated changes in their organizational structure or certain key promotional tools that could exempt them from the new laws.

This article identifies five common arguments that are very frequently made in opposition to proposed climate change laws and policies that can not be adequately responded to without full recognition of serious ethical problems with these arguments.

While the resultant strategies will likely differ, the process cited in the report — analyzing how the market was changing, consulting with key clients and identifying how to remain competitive and successful for the long term — offers an excellent template for every law firm to work from.

Like the three reports discussed above, and, in fact, drawing heavily on those reports, the curricular change literature generally takes the position that the case - dialogue method of pedagogy does not sufficiently prepare law students to become practicing lawyers.74 While students learn basic case analysis skills through this method, they are usually not explicitly taught how to integrate those skills into a larger set of lawyering skills, in particular those identified as fundamental in the MacCrate Report.75 Further, while reading and analyzing cases, the focus of most law school classes, are important lawyering skills, they represent only a small portion of what lawyers actually do.76 Consequently, these commentators advocate for teaching legal skills as they are used in their real - world context, not merely as abstract ideas, and for integrating theoretical analysis and practical skills.77

The important thing here is that if you have an old IRP review decision, it may be worth appealing it now bearing in mind that the law has changed and is still changing to recognize the defences that lawyers such as ourselves identified over two years ago.

Altman Weil's Law Firms in Transition Survey 2015 documents how the business of law is changing and identifies emerging forces that will move the legal market forwaLaw Firms in Transition Survey 2015 documents how the business of law is changing and identifies emerging forces that will move the legal market forwalaw is changing and identifies emerging forces that will move the legal market forward.

I'm confident that, one day, AI will be good at identifying trends in decision - making and new ideas generated in literature and use this to predict upcoming changes in the law.

«The law society recognizes that the challenges identified in its report are long - standing and it is committed to work of accelerating change.»

As the result of the recent changing economic environment and increasingly competitive markets in which most law firms practice, Managing Partners and members of Management and Compensation Committees in the more successful law firms have identified and re-defined those objective and subjective criteria that have been especially designed to motivate partners to attract new clients, proliferate work from existing clients, perform those fee producing and non-fee producing activities that are necessary to retain existing clients and recognize those partners who have been given responsibility for managing the performance of clients and client work that other members of the firm have originated.

A candidate in the Law Society of Upper Canada bencher election is raising concern about changes to the regulator's online directory of lawyers and paralegals that allows them to identify their main areas of law or legal servicLaw Society of Upper Canada bencher election is raising concern about changes to the regulator's online directory of lawyers and paralegals that allows them to identify their main areas of law or legal serviclaw or legal services.

In an ever - shifting legal landscape, our expert tax lawyers understand that it's essential to quickly identify, and respond to, changes in UK tax laIn an ever - shifting legal landscape, our expert tax lawyers understand that it's essential to quickly identify, and respond to, changes in UK tax lain UK tax law.

They identify a range of options and with them create a checklist for law firm leaders to navigate a much - changed future in which clients have the whip hand, and technology is used to full its potential.

Texas Appleseed also conducts data - driven research that uncovers inequity in laws and policies and identifies solutions for lasting, concrete change.

«Although he identified himself to the tribunal by his previous legal name, he has submitted documentation to the tribunal that appears to confirm his change of legal name, including a document of name change issued under the Vital Statistics Act, dated March 20, 2014,» wrote Muir in The Queen v. Pro Bono Law Ontario.

Sometimes it's working with LPOs, sometimes it's working with Axiom (or similar quasi-law firms such as Clearspire or Riverview), sometimes it's working with their law firms to change the way they staff a matter, and sometimes it's identifying when «good enough» will work in place of «perfect» — you get my drift.

In 2015, the Ontario government initiated the Changing Workplaces Review (Review) with a view to identifying potential reforms to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) and the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (LRA) to ensure that the province's employment standards and labour relations laws continue to reflect modern realities.

The Navigator Team provides an external perspective that can help advance your overall interests through development of a focused, strategic approach to identifying and pursuing changes in the law that will facilitate those business goals.

In addition to breakfast and a chance to meet members of the Employment Team, there will be a short Employment Law update identifying key development law and the practical steps that all employers — big or small — should take to comply with the changLaw update identifying key development law and the practical steps that all employers — big or small — should take to comply with the changlaw and the practical steps that all employers — big or small — should take to comply with the changes.

CWP members and staff frequently identified changes that needed to be made to laws or policies in order to alleviate poverty and publicly promoted the adoption of a national anti-poverty strategy.

Many law firms are unprepared for the sea of change that is underway in the legal industry, as identified in the annual «2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market.»

It is against this rapidly changing backdrop that corporate counsel are challenged to identify ways to contain spend, mitigate risk, take on ever - increasing responsibility, manage a legal supply chain, defend the enterprise and simultaneously advance its business agenda within established risk parameters and the bounds of the law, and proactively identify — and defuse — problems before they result in legal exposure.

Lastly, they blamed «scientific challenges» particularly in identifying critical habitat and in responding to changes in the law after various decisions of the Federal Court.

It does not assert that lawyers must understand the subjects identified because it will enable them to adapt to the changes in law that will inevitably occur during their careers.

We have canvassed opinions from law firm partners and in - house counsel across Ireland, to identify corporate counsel that have been instrumental in changing or forming opinions within their company or industry; developing brilliant technical solutions to complex issues; creating innovative structures to ensure that the in - house function is driving the business forward; or providing a business working model that other corporate counsel should follow.

The paper titled, «The Client Cost Conundrum: Legal Service Pricing in a Post-Recession Market» identifies economic factors that influenced relationship changes between clients and law firms after the Great Recession.

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Managed all daily operations in each zone of Ford's Trim and Chassis Departments Oversaw manufacturing processes, 120 employee team, and final product quality Served on company Continuous Progress Improvement teams developing best practices Observed product manufacturing process and recommended improvement strategies Reduced personnel overtime, manpower, and production scrap while increasing efficiency Identified design flaws, offered remedial measures, and implemented changes Received numerous awards for process and product improvement recommendations Ensured product and manufacturing process compliance with all applicable laws Chosen to lead the launch of multiple products from Ford's Kentucky and Kansas plants Directed and improved the 2009 F - 150 Product Development Launch Team Met all production and launch timelines while remaining compliant with ISO - 9001 standards Responsible for the enforcement of all safety protocols and procedures Handled union contract negotiations and grievance discourses Leader of and participant in Ford's Diversity Committee Participated in company workshops focused on environmental preservation techniques Performed environmental safety examinations including air and chemical emission testing Maintained machinery ensuring effective and safe operation Completed all assignments in a professional and positive manner

Is the change or adaptation of such a kind that it can no longer be said that the rights or interests asserted are possessed under the traditional laws acknowledged and the traditional customs observed by the relevant peoples when that expression is understood in the sense earlier identified?

As identified in the previous chapters on climate change, the focus of law and policy has become highly influenced by the domestic and international economy.

identify what should be done in response, including any changes in current laws, practices and policies with a focus on locating and reunifying families;

You are right on Mr. Bell... Chairman Steve purports to change our laws so that everyone is guilty until proven innocent... I applaud your courage in identifying this for what it is... we are now unpaid secret police spying on everyone... for what benefit exactly?