Sentences with phrase «liability cases go»

Occasionally, liability cases go to court, but having the right amount of liability coverage will protect you in both instances.

Not exact matches

«As soon as there's a case that goes against them, it opens up a Pandora's box of liability.»

In the 1800s, in Europe, the argument for the liberalization of bankruptcy law, and the introduction of limited liability, was bolstered by the increasing number of cases like John Bayer, who went bankrupt and then, later, started producing Bayer aspirin, which became a great success.

Besides, the Founder incorporated specifically to avoid personal liability in case something goes wrong, so he has no grounds to then try to re-inject personal, non-business desires back into the company so as to force those onto his employees.

As he sees it, when people are desperate and out of work, crime goes up, liability litigation cases are filed more frequently and everyone does whatever they can to make a little money to survive.

The state law — which went into effect in June 2011 — allows officials to leave out certain costs from the cap: a portion of the pension costs, capital expenditures and court awards from personal liability cases.

In some cases, this includes the need for liability coverage in amounts that go beyond the coverage limits of their policies.

If the other guy has enough liability coverage to go around, your insurance company can even recover your personal property deductible for you in many cases.

Through 2017 (and in certain cases 2018), exceptions to federal tax laws allow some homeowners to escape additional tax liability when going through foreclosure.

Similarly, there are lots of factors that go into the value of your case including liability, the severity of the crash, the evidence available, the amount of your medical bills and wage loss, the severity and permanency of your injuries, any pre-existing conditions, and a host of other things.

Premises liability cases are often far better when they are put in the hands of a skilled Lafayette injury attorney that will understand the ways to go about seeking a solution and building a strong case.

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If we can't agree on the claim's value with the insurers (or those responsible don't admit liability), your case may go to court for a judge to decide.

The employer continued to deny liability and, shortly before the case was due to go to trial, Richard successfully negotiated a settlement of # 160,000 for the men.

Premises liability is never an easy case and it will most likely go to litigation.

Our experience, talent, and resources go toward achieving the best possible result in cases involving auto accidents, maritime accidents, premise liability, medical malpractice, wrongful death, defective products and much more.

The attorney is going to want to collect as much information as possible because the attorney will want all the necessary information to build a strong Louisville premises liability case.

Whether your case goes to trial largely depends on issues of liability and causation, if the settlement offer is too low or the demand too high and the respective parties refuse to compromise.

Obviously, you like to win them all, but when you try a hard case and lose it, that goes to their mind too that they're willing to try a case that looks very, very tough liability wise.

Greg McEwen: Because you can have a very big case, liability wise, and if you've only got a million dollars worth of insurance, that's all you're going to get.

In Connecticut product liability cases that go to trial, the plaintiff's goal is to obtain a favorable verdict.

Representing her was scary, I didn't think I was going to win the case going into it because liability was really tough.

In these cases, the accident victim's case must go further to demonstrate the owner's failure to keep their premises safe in order for liability to be imposed upon the owner or occupant.

This third party liability in IP rights infringement goes back a number of years in US case law, and was brought to the forefront in the 1996 case Fonovisa Inc. v. Cherry Auction, Inc..

I'm thinking this is a case where joint and several liability applies; IncumbentCo can go after any particular one of the owners and developers for the entire amount if they feel like it, and then it would be up to that person to then sue anyone else he thinks is partially liable.

The firm will also take on cases regarding product liability and will go up against insurance companies and defendants in motorcycle accidents.

When a hazard goes unaddressed and leaves you hurt, you might have a premises liability case on your hands.

In the DUI case that I described, Geico went on to reverse their liability decision and has now taken care of the property damage that the clients sustained at the hands of the drunk driver.

If liability is easily proven, then there is roughly a 95 % chance that the case will settle without ever going to trial, which is good news for you!

If liability is difficult to prove, then the chances of a case going to court dramatically increase.

On the other hand, if there were no witnesses and liability is not clearly evident, then the case has a greater chance of going to trial.

These will help you to contribute to everyone's security, aid figure out liability, and aid with proof must a case go to trial.

With our skill and knowledge in the field of personal injury law and product liability in particular, we can even go up against large corporations in these cases, ever vigilant in asserting our clients» rights.

Adding to this site's archived case summaries addressing collision liability, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, addressing fault for a collision when a motorcyclist wrongly assumed a vehicle was going to come into his path of travel.

In a case that went to court, Brian's insurance client was facing a huge liability damages claim in a personal injury case.

Go Motorboards v. EnerSys: He was lead trial counsel for EnerSys in a product liability case arising out of the sale of batteries to an electric scooter manufacturer.

Going blindly into a premises liability claim could be detrimental to your chances of recovering compensation for your damages or injuries, so learning more about your rights can only be beneficial to your case.

Recognized as leading Canadian lawyers in product liability defence, we have handled precedent - setting cases, including the first medical device class action to go to trial in Canada.

New Mexico premises liability, or New Mexico slip and fall cases, whatever name they go by, they generally involve injury of a customer or guest that the property owner is responsible for.

This matter went to the Supreme Court of Canada as a reference case (i.e. a question asked of the courts by the government), and led to the determination that the section of the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act which made it an absolute liability offence to drive while prohibited was unconstitutional.

Michael went on to graduate from NYLS cum laude and began working in the areas of general liability defense, defending personal injury, construction accident and wrongful death claims for such clients as the New York City Transit Authority and the Pyramid shopping mall properties and representing various individual in the same types of cases as plaintiffs.

However, these arguments largely failed and in the JGE case the Church went a stage further, arguing that vicarious liability can not arise in the first place as priests are not employees of the church, they are merely office holders and therefore (it argued) the essential precondition of vicarious liability is not satisfied.

However, this does not mean that one has to fear liability because of their slice (or hook); the NSSC case (para. 18) cites (1968), 67 D.L.R. (2d) 21, where «an unexpected hook of a shot by a player who usually sliced the ball was not a basis for liability for hitting another player, as it was not foreseeable that his ball would go where it did.»

The decision effectively limits a polluter's liability to what it can pay as part of a restructuring plan it designs with creditors» approval, not out of the billions (in Abitibi's case) in profit going forward after its successor has emerged from insolvency protection.

His reported cases include RH Green & Silley Weir v BR (limitation period against 3rd party), de Bry v Fitzgerald (security for costs), Hartt v Newspaper Publishing (libel concerning a work by Michelangelo), Pearson v Sanders Witherspoon (valuation of loss of chance), Siebe Gorman v Pneupac (status of consent orders), Senate Electrical v NTL (liability of an employee for acquisition warranties) and Bendell v Smith & Others (a successful recovery action by a lender on a shared appreciation mortgage equity release — the only such case to go to trial).

However, some cases need to go to trial because both sides are so far apart and there are too many contentious issues such as liability, damages, causation or the credibility of the parties.

Then the family has access to the lawyers liability insurance if the court case goes wrong, and their daughter will then receive the care she needs regardless of the litigation risk.

Second, to add belt to braces, the judgment goes on to consider in some detail the decision of the court of Appeal in the leading case of Jones v Tower Boot Co [1997] 2 All ER 406, [1997] IRLR 168, which held that a purposive interpretation is to be given to the general vicarious liability provisions in the discrimination statutes in order to achieve their aim, even at the cost of going further than the normal common law rules; this was held to be equally applicable to the parallel provisions on agency.

The newspaper goes on to report what the judge actually said; that she believes «new protocols and rules of disclosure would lead to early resolution and early admission of liability when justified» [in «medical negligence» cases].

Liability insurance is not going to cover an «act of God,» as it is known, or in this case, an act of tree.