Sentences with phrase «make awards of compensation»

The Property Ombudsman is empowered to make awards of compensation of up to # 25,000 for financial loss, distress and inconvenience where appropriate.

If the tribunal upholds the claim it will make a declaration to that effect and «may make an award of compensation» (regulation 30 (3)(b)-RRB-.

It has been his experience that Greyhound does not merely «settle injury cases» but that Greyhound prefers to let victims sue them and for the courts to make the award of compensation.

Not exact matches

In the future, our Compensation Committee and board of directors may consider awarding such additional or alternative forms of awards to our executive officers, although no decision to use such other forms of award has yet been made.

One - third of performance share awards, which make up 50 % of long - term incentive compensation, are tied to average return on invested capital over a three - year period.

Additional information about the LTICP and other plans pursuant to which awards in the form of shares of the Company's common stock may be made to directors and employees in exchange for goods or services is provided under «Equity Compensation Plan Information.»

These include risks relating to setting ambitious targets for our employees» compensation or the vesting of their equity awards and the potential impact of such targets on the decision - making of our employees, particularly our senior management.

Deferral of an incentive compensation award paid in cash under this Policy shall be made pursuant to the provisions of the Company's Deferred Compencompensation award paid in cash under this Policy shall be made pursuant to the provisions of the Company's Deferred CompensationCompensation Plan.

Additional information about the LTICP and other plans pursuant to which awards in the form of shares of our common stock may be made to directors and employees in exchange for goods or services is provided under «Equity Compensation Plan Information.»

Effective May 3, 2007, our director equity compensation policy provides that non-employee directors» initial annual equity awards shall be made in the form of RSUs.

Forms of compensation that do not qualify is any compensation that incentivizes the advisor to make the specific recommendation — like trips, awards programs, productions bonuses, and marketing dollars based on production or performance.

Not until Germany's Federal Network Agency makes its assessment will it be clear whether bids significantly higher than the current rates of compensation will be awarded contracts and if new players will be among the awardees or whether the contracts will be awarded to the same companies who came out on top in the first round.

They tell us that making sure corporations are held accountable when their actions harm consumers, employees, or communities (70 %) should be a much higher priority for the civil justice system than limiting the amount of compensation that juries can award for pain and suffering.»

The report, Brown noted, expressed concerns about «Blott's role in ensuring that the companies making loans were fully repaid through the use of «directions to pay» from the proceeds of compensation awards under the settlement agreement.»

'' «In addition to actual or compensatory damages, the law permits the jury, under certain circumstances, to make an award of punitive damages, in order to punish the wrongdoer for his misconduct, to serve as an example or warning to others not to engage in such conduct and to provide additional compensation for the conduct to which the injured parties have been subjected.

The court also stated earlier in Stiles v. Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia, (1989), 38 B.C.L.R. (2d) 307 (C.A.) at p. 311 that special costs should not be awarded unless there is some form of reprehensible conduct, «either in the circumstances giving rise to the cause of action, or in the proceeding, which make such costs desirable as a form of chastisement.

A compensation award was made for her whiplash injury of # 2250.

«Where it appears to the court... that the employee has made an invention belonging to the employer for which a patent has been granted, that the patent is (having regard among other things to the size and nature of the employer's undertaking) of outstanding benefit to the employer and that by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation to the paid the employer, the court... may award him such compensation of an amount determined under s 41 below.»

It conducted a piece of research and found that in the past two years alone, the number of compensation awards made for burn or scald injuries had increased by a third.

The MoJ makes it clear that it considers the level of compensation awarded for PSLA for minor soft tissue injury claims to be out of all proportion to the level of pain and suffering actually experienced.

The number of compensation awards being made for burn, scar or scald injuries in Scotland is continuing to increase.

Similarly, whilst other regulations, such as the Part - time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 and the Fixed - term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, expressly excluded compensation for injury to feelings, this did not give the tribunals discretion to make such an award.

On top of all this, sweeping tort reform measures passed in Texas have made it virtually impossible for many survivors (as well as families of the deceased victims) to recover the compensation they're legally owed, even when their case is successful and a jury awards compensation.

(Effect of Awards of Compensation Made by the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, 1954 I.C.J. Reports 47, at 60 - 1 (Advisory Opinion of 13 July)(hereinafter Effect of Awards).)

The compensation awarded should be fair and reasonable to both parties... for purposes of assessing non-pecuniary damages, fairness is measured against awards made in comparable cases.

Your Twin Falls truck crash attorney will know how to put a price tag on these types of intangible damages to make sure the compensation you're awarded covers the true extent of your suffering.

It is also a decision that we can expect to be appealed given the importance of the legal issues at stake and the size of the damages award made by the jury which, by Canadian standards, marks a high for compensation in an historical childhood sexual abuse case.

Although these are not covered by insurance the spector of them being awarded against the wrongdoer makes the insurance company listen closer and pay more attention to fair compensation for your injuries.

According to the figures, which come from cost awards, fines, restitution orders and Compensation Fund repayment demands made against 211 lawyers, ex-lawyers and paralegals in 2010, the LSUC expects to collect about 10 per cent of the money it's owed.

Once it becomes compulsory for agents to join an approved scheme, buyers and sellers of residential property will be able to refer complaints concerning members of the scheme to an ombudsman who can make a range of awards, including requiring a member to pay compensation.

The decision was made on the basis that there should be a limit to the amount of compensation awarded for pain and suffering.

Both the Injuries Board and the courts calculate compensation on the basis of general damages, a somewhat unscientific amount awarded for pain and suffering, and special damages, which are made up of specific expenses.

Minutes of the meeting record that the Minister made a number of counter arguments to Axa on compensation concerns, for example that medical negligence cases skewed comparisons of compensation payments and that the level of awards by PIAB was «fairly consistent» from 2010 - 2014, with the majority of awards being under $ 20,000.

However, some solicitors made deductions of success fees from miners» compensation awards, in addition to costs they would receive from the government, to compensate for not being paid in unsuccessful cases.

The awards of compensation were made against these two individuals as well as the centre, on the basis that they had been acting as the «agents» of the centre, within the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/1660), regs 22 (2) and 23 (2).

«Nonemployee compensation» includes fees, commissions, prizes, and awards, and so would include cooperative commissions and referral fees paid by real estate professionals because these payments are made during the course of their trade or business to nonemployees.