Sentences with phrase «only economic damages»
The eyes of Texas were upon the state's high court when it reaffirmed an 1891 ruling that because pets are personal property, a bereaved owner of a negligently killed dog can seek only economic damages, not emotional damages.
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While proponents downplay the impact of their respective laws, economic experts say they are likely to inflict far - ranging damage in those states, not only on LGBT customers and residents, but also on companies that operate there or are considering doing so.
«I think what we need to do is really to start negotiations and to see how we do this withdrawal; if a transition is needed, making a transition that is not causing economic damage (for either side),» Verhofstadt said, adding that it was only then that both parties should consider their future relationship.
Trump is using the presidency as a bully pulpit in a different and more threatening sense, which will not only be damaging to our economic system, but unlikely to produce the results that many of his supporters appear to expect.
Boosting demand is only useful and appropriate when repairing the economic damage caused by a recession.
However, nearby stores reported that their sales of these two magazines soared, which means that while Playboy and Penthouse suffered slightly or perhaps not at all in the long run (because of the free publicity), the individual 7 - Eleven owner - franchisers suffered considerable economic damage not only from the loss of magazine sales but from losses of additional sales from people who went to other stores to purchase Playboy and Penthouse.
He was particularly exercised about immigration, not only calling anti-immigration rhetoric in the past few months «damaging» but also saying that «the economic health of this country is based on a constant influx of immigrants.»
«Only the Liberal Democrats are prepared to give Britain stability it needs in uncertain economic times, keeping the Government anchored in the centre ground and avoiding damaging veers to the left or right by Labour and the Tories.
Instead he claimed it would «not only devastate the services we rely on, but do untold damage to our economic prospects».
During a dangerous and damaged near future and with the globe devastated by an economic collapse, desperate and on - the - edge Eric (Pearce) finds himself on the mission to track down a gang who have stolen the only meaningful possession he has left during a robbery — his prized Rover automobile.
Except as provided in subsection (a), any creditor who fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this chapter with respect to any person is liable to the person only for the actual economic damages sustained by the person as the result of the failure.
Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second - costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Only Japan incurs more economic damage from natural disaster than we do.
On the subject of damages caused by El Nino years, please keep in mind that the references Roger Jr. provided in # 1 are only for a limited set of economic damage metrics.
But the FAO says the waste not only causes huge economic losses but is also doing very significant damage to natural resources — climate, water, land and biodiversity.
Climate governance can not be considered only in terms of environmental damage because it is now a part of the economic debate around the competition for scarce resources.
Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and global warming.
It is therefore not only undemocratic to allow the vocal anti-wind minority to derail the UK's plans for renewable energy, but also damaging to our economy, undermining investment and jobs that will help to rebuild communities across the country and put the UK on a path to future economic prosperity.»
By backing the coal industry, which is plainly in a state of serious and continuious decline, Mr Abbott is not only betraying future generations, but he is damaging Australia's economic future.
The change in salinity would damage 734 square miles of freshwater marshland that acts not only as a hub of economic activity, but also an important natural buffer against storms.
That change of the political and economic systems globally would be important to avoid an over-reaction to the clearly damaging results being developed by the current arrangements made up by humans (climate change is not the only damaging result that has been developed).
«Climate change has already delivered severe economic damage and things will only get worse without more action,» said Andrew Steer, the president of the World Resources Institute, a Washington - based think tank, in a press statement.
Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.
Workers» compensation benefits only cover basic economic expenses, but not noneconomic damages like pain and suffering or loss of quality of life.
These include the degree to which you've suffered up until now, the likelihood that your injuries and damages will continue into the future and for what period of time, a complete and thorough assessment of not only the liability of the defendant but the manner in which that liability caused your injuries and the full extent of your past and future economic damages, such as lost wages and related medical expenses.
The most effective damages analysis for a case may require only simple calculations or it may require complex economic and financial modeling.
Shall Section 11 of Article I (Bill of Rights) of the Constitution of Virginia be amended (i) to require that eminent domain only be exercised where the property taken or damaged is for public use and, except for utilities or the elimination of a public nuisance, not where the primary use is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development; (ii) to define what is included in just compensation for such taking or damaging of property; and (iii) to prohibit the taking or damaging of more private property than is necessary for the public use?
In addressing the economic loss doctrine, which limits damages to a manufactured item to contract damages only, if nothing beyond the item itself is harmed, Mr. Martin says, «I don't say that's a bad doctrine; it serves a very good purpose.
You may only recover the greater of $ 250,000 or three times your economic damages (e.g. medical costs, lost wages).
Family members can only recover economic damages resulting from the death of a loved one.
Held, inter alia, the 2006 Regulations did not go further than EU law requires by conferring a power to award damages in respect of loss or damage suffered by an economic operator in the case of any breach, as opposed to only a «sufficiently serious» breach, of the Regulations, as per the Francovich conditions.
You can only recover economic damages to the extent that you have experienced financial losses.
A breach of fiduciary duty not only gives rise to a tort, it gives rise to special damages and remedies that are unique to fiduciary cases apart from common economic loss damages, such as disgorgement of ill - gotten gains or a constructive trust.
If you negotiate with the insurance company on your own, they will likely offer economic damages only, agreeing to pay for your medical bills to - date along with your lost wages.
In the right case, with a proper amount of evidence to prove the need for punitive damages, such a means makes sense, but most injured people are better off seeking only «economic» or «non-economic» damages rather than punitive damages.
Because of New York's No - Fault law, lawsuits due to auto accidents can be brought only for economic losses that exceed No - Fault benefits and for non-economic damages (such as pain and suffering) only if a «serious injury» (as defined in the Insurance Law) is sustained.
Claims for economic losses and non-economic damages that go beyond the coverage limit can only be considered only if a «serious injury» occurs, as indicated by New York State Insurance Department regulations.
In theory, it accomplishes this in three ways: by reducing the number of car accident cases in the courts; by placing a cap on the payment of pain and suffering damages; and by providing only limited payment for economic losses [5].
Claims caused by auto accidents can only be considered for economic losses outside the No - Fault coverage as well as for non-economic damages such as severe pain, and physical and mental distress only if there is a «serious injury,» under the regulations set by the New York State Insurance Department.
Violence not only manifests as physical or sexual assault, but also as the exercise of power and control which may include direct or indirect threats, emotional and psychological abuse, economic control, property damage and social isolation.