Sentences with phrase «risk of a potential lawsuit»

Having adequate contractors liability insurance in place to safeguard your contracting and construction business against the always growing risks of a potential lawsuit from an accident, injury, or even an illness is extremely important.

It is a false «paper trail» to justify terminating an employee, or to induce an employee to resign instead of being fired, thus saving the employer both the expense of severance and risk of a potential lawsuit.

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In a joint report, The Sunday Times and ProPublica, an American investigative journalism enterprise, yesterday detailed a libel lawsuit against Henrik Thomsen, a Danish clinician who is among those that alerted patients and regulators to potential risks of a drug called Omniscan that is administered to people receiving MRIs in order to improve the images.

A woman diagnosed with ulcerative colitis received a $ 10.5 million award for pain and suffering in a lawsuit filed against the company, and was awarded $ 78,500 for medical expenses after her attorneys proved the company knew of a potential risk of IBD from Accutane, and failed to report it to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Due to the link between higher risk of heart problems with testosterone treatment, many lawsuits have been filed against drug manufacturers for failing to warn customers of the potential heart risks.

A products liability lawsuit can also be brought for a manufacturer's failure to warn of potential risks.

There are grounds for lawsuits based on negligence, failing to monitor the safety of a prescription medication, misleading consumers of the risks of a medication, inadequately labeling a prescription medication and ignoring potential risks of a prescription medication.

Previously, such employers ran the risk of an IME request being unjustified or ordered in bad faith, and as a potential basis for, or a contributor to, a subsequent discrimination complaint or wrongful dismissal lawsuit.

As it turns out, some insurance companies consider certain breeds, especially pit bulls, to be a high risk of potential liability and lawsuits from dog bites, leading to substantial medical costs, settlement size, and corresponding payouts.

Of course, in addition to providing the potential for financial success, business ownership can lead to losses due to hazards such as fire, severe weather, liability lawsuits, and other industry - specific risks.

Any local business that provides the goods and services needed by the residents of Bastrop has the potential to thrive, but is also at risk for large financial losses caused by such hazards as severe weather, property crimes, and liability lawsuits.

The risks faced by landscapers include the potential to damage a client's property, injuries for your employees or someone in the vicinity of work being performed, lawsuits, or financial loss if your company is not able to produce work for a period of time.

With the growth of background screening as a routine tactic for risk management, more and more employers are vulnerable to class action lawsuits, even when potential violations are minor and unintended.

The first thing brokers can do to mitigate the risk of an agent tarnishing their business's reputation — or opening up the potential for a lawsuit — is to develop and enforce a social media policy.

Is it just «easier» to do without a security deposit and leave yourself open to that risk rather than the potential for a lawsuit if you don't follow one of the many, many, many rules around the deposit?

In contrast, if that property were owned by an LLC, the owner's risk exposure would be insulated by the protection of the company, leaving only the assets owned by the LLC (as opposed to all of the owner's personal assets) exposed to potential lawsuits.