Sentences with phrase «sued by the victim»

The company that sold a weapon used in a Christmas Eve shooting that left two Rochester - area volunteer firefighters dead is being sued by the victims.

This is of great importance to the insured person especially if he gets sued by the victim.

Even in a no - fault state, a driver can be sued by a victim if his medical costs exceed the coverage of his insurance.

Not exact matches

Some companies deserve to be sued by an employee for wrongful termination, but a disturbing number of companies are victims of frivolous lawsuits initiated by employees eager to jump on the litigation bandwagon.

This week, Uber temporarily lost its CEO, saw a board member leave after making a sexist comment, and was sued by a rape victim who alleges the company improperly gained access to her medical records.

The only «profit» I've seen in Catholicism is being made by lawyers so happy to sue the church on behalf of legitimate and questionable victims and claim they are doing it all in the name of justice... as long as they get to keep their tidy share of the spoils.

A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.

It would not have been a civil case only (as the victim would retain the right to sue in civil court as well) but a criminal matter, punishable by time in prison.

i am sure he is just going mad because his company (or church) is being sued by the abused victims and that he is not going to get paid for his job.

The measures include proposals that would ban so - called undetectable firearms that can not be seen by an x-ray or metal detector, strengthen background checks and allow the victims of gun violence to sue manufacturers.

A seventh alleged victim, whose case is being handled by a different law firm from the other six defendants, planned to sue in U.S. District court, claiming civil rights violations, according to people familiar with that case.

Control of the Senate, too, would ease the way for Democratic bills currently blocked by the GOP, including ones to increase firearm restrictions, allow early voting, authorize state financial aid to students who entered the country illegally as children, and extend the statute of limitations on child molestation to allow victims to sue for decades - old abuse.

Days after the settlement with Gordon Taylor was revealed by The Guardian in July 2009, Max Clifford, another of the eight victims named in 2006, announced his intentions to sue.

The suit was filed on May 2, 2012 by 20 plaintiffs, led by Vincent Agu, who had sued for themselves and as representatives of the victims of the war, «including the 493 victims pre-enumerated by the Ministry of Defence through RSB Holdings.»

For a decade, advocates for survivors of childhood sexual abuse had pressed lawmakers to lift the statute of limitations, which now requires most victims to sue by age 23.

Meanwhile, a measure that would extend the statute of limitations for child molestation — and allow victims to sue over decades - old abuse allegations — is supported by the Assembly and Cuomo, but has been held up in the Senate.

Early voting as allowed by 37 other states, reform of New York's archaic election laws, allowing victims of sexual abuse cases to reopen their cases and sue their abusers, common sense reforms to New York's gun laws, so many issues on the table that need to be addressed.

The act makes it easier for prosecutors and victims of sex trafficking to sue websites that fail to keep exploitative content posted by traffickers off their websites.

We will even go further than other companies by pointing out other very important information to help prevent you from being sued or let you know if you may be a victim of Identity Theft.

Consumer Protection Acts allow buyers who have purchased a faulty product for household use, or been the victim of misrepresentation by the seller, to sue in the case of failure on the part of the seller to cure, or make right, the sale.

Otherwise, I anticipate that victims of harassment perpetrated by social networking sites will sue to hold them accountable for failure to protect site users or guard against fraudulent use.

In addition to being prosecuted by the criminal court system, the defendant may also be sued for financial damages in civil court by the victim or their family.

The topic of Moose in NL is charged to such an extent that a lawsuit has been launched whereby victims of Moose collisions are suing the provincial government over the introduction of the animal to the island in 1904, claiming that the provincial government is legally responsible for the many damages to lives caused by those collisions.

If a pauper intentionally cripples a pedestrian the insurance pays the medical bills, and attempts to recover; the victim of a car thief can not sue the owner but should (if the thief is not found or can not pay) be covered by a government scheme Other countries / states have different ways of ensuring that the innocent do not suffer.

The Torture Convention primarily focuses on criminal prosecution, but it also requires that victims can secure compensation by suing those responsible.

Product Liability refers to a field of law that allows victims injured by dangerous or defective products to sue for compensation for their injuries and losses.

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog recently drew to our attention a case decided by the New York State appellate court, allowing a shooting victim to sue the manufacturer, distributor, and dealer of the gun.

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

Class action lawsuits would typically occur after a plane or train accident where all the victims would sue the transportation company together in a class action suit; or in the event of a defective product purchased by many, such as an automobile as in the plot of the 1991 movie entitled Class Action (pictured, left).

When an driver is killed by an uninsured motorist, the victim's surviving relatives can sometimes sue for damages.

At the same time, a Toronto motions judge has reserved the decision on an anti-SLAPP motion filed by an Ottawa blogger, Robert Day, against controversialist Ezra Levant, who sued Day for online postings criticizing Levant's fundraising for Fort McMurray fire victims.

In the state of Texas, a victim must be able to prove that the party being sued for personal injury acted irresponsibly to a point that it caused the injuries and damages suffered by the victim.

Fortunately, personal injury victims can compel wrongdoers to do the right thing by exercising the legal right to sue for damages.

Anna Matas says Ontario should follow Saskatchewan's lead by introducing revenge porn legislation that makes it easier for victims to sue people who share their intimate images without consent.

You must also have a higher civil liability coverage because unlike in Quebec, you can be sued by accident victims in other parts of Canada and the USA.