Sentences with phrase «value claims system»

Irwin Mitchell is planning to buy up books of personal injury (PI) work from other law firms in response to the Government's overhaul of the low - value claims system and its impact on PI profit margins.

Claimant law firms could be forced to rethink their business models after the Government saw off a challenge to reform its forthcoming overhaul of the low - value claims system — changes that could cost personal injury (PI) lawyers an estimated # 200m a year.

Not exact matches

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

What is amusing to me is that when an atheist claims to be «good» without God, they are generally basing their judgement of right and wrong on Western European value systems.

The claim of my nonpacifist colleagues that the system they are using is more socially responsible, more understandable to ordinary people, more culturally accessible to people of other value communities, more able to manage with discrimination the factual data of political decisions, than is my testimony to Jesus» words and work, still has the burden of proof.

And not only that, but we will find that we stand in risk of losing this system which we claim to value so highly.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

He went so far as to claim that «Coordination has no value for creative interest except as it enters in to magnify the conflicts of systems, and thereby make consciousness more vivid and complicated» (OI 15).

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

I need not elaborate the detailed description Turner developed of the way in which rites of passages afford the formal structuring that, he claimed, maintains the ordered value system of a group and provides a cathartic experience of «communitas.»

While Sidney B. Simon at the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues claim that their values - clarification approach «does not aim to instill any particular set of values,» they certainly reveal their ideological bias toward the autonomous, bourgeois, rationalistic self when they talk about «learning a process for selecting the best and rejecting the worst elements contained in the various value systems.

Eagle Fat Analysis systems also offer specialized capabilities for the meat industry including the accurate measurement of chemical lean (CL) values, which helps manufacturers improve yield management and consistency of their products, reducing fat claims and lean giveaway.

The fat analysis system enables meat producers to supply customers with quality assured products at their specified CL values, avoid costly fat claims or product giveaway.

Questions - Getting value for money from companies marketing services to help people make claims against missold Payment Protection Insurance Legislation, revising the system for electing British Members of the European Parliament, dealing with any consequences for social cohesion and criminality of the withdrawal of civil legal aid for social welfare law cases, annual value of employers» national insurance contributions Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

That created huge incentives to play the system by claiming exaggerated values for furniture and fittings.

That has created huge incentives to «game the system» over the years by claiming exaggerated values for fixtures and fittings.

In California, the issue of water supply has pitted farmers against city dwellers and environmentalists, who claim that the farmers waste most of their water on low - value crops and inefficient irrigation systems.

A simple, standardised labelling system would compel companies that make big claims to tell the truth up front about the nutritional value of their product.

Some experts claim the Crimini mushroom performs better than others for nutrient - value because of what it does for the immune system.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Although there have been both claims that colloidal silver is simply a placebo at best, others hail its value as an antibiotic that supports the human immune system.

Foundations that claim to value empowered teachers, autonomous schools, and nimble systems don't invest in any of this.

Unfortunately, some education advocates in New York, Los Angeles and other cities are claiming that a good personnel system can be based on ranking teachers according to their «value - added rating» — a measurement of their impact on students» test scores — and publicizing the names and rankings online and in the media.

In our most recent post, we conducted the first of two (this is the second) follow - up analyses to examine the claims put forth in another recent post about a Tennessee assistant principal's suspicions regarding his state of Tennessee's value - added scores, as measured by the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System (TVAAS; publicly available hvalue - added scores, as measured by the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System (TVAAS; publicly available hValue - Added Assessment System (TVAAS; publicly available here).

The combat system relies on using monsters with high HP and strength values to eliminate your opponent from their claimed territory.

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

When Rawls claims the early - mid 20th century solar changes are responsible for late - 20th response, it occurs to me, given all the different timescales in the system, most of which I don't know the values for, that I don't have a feel for what the response to a pure - solar forcing might look like (leaving energy balance questions aside — just what is the shape of the curves?)

Here, you'll state the cost of your solar energy system and calculate the value of the credit, along with the amount of the credit that you will be able to claim.

These nonlinearities make the system to be closer to a boundary value problem, although claiming that it would really be one is an oversimplification.

One important caveat to be aware of with MACRS is that if the ITC was claimed on the solar installation, the total value that can be depreciated must be reduced by one - half the value of the 30 % ITC (so a business could only claim 85 % of the cost of the system).

Objectivism is in essence a philosophy that was «reverse engineered» from Ayn Rand's subjective value system, in order to claim that her particular personal values were «objectively» correct and true and good, and that other values were «objectively» wrong and false and evil.

For insurance lawyers, we can guess that changes will involve some form of system like the claims portal (the pre-action protocol for low value personal injury claims).

Writing for Legal IT Professionals, in an article entitled: Web - based Dispute Resolution Systems Gain Traction as Court Delays and Low Value Disputes Surge, Christy highlights how Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution techniques are being applied by private companies seeking to compete with court's claim for «customers».

What is proposed, following the Civil Justice Council's report on low value claims up to # 25,000, is a two - tier system with a court officer managing the case and deciding the appropriate form of dispute resolution.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) contested a decision made by the Ministry of Justice to significantly reduce the fees recoverable by lawyers for cases managed through the road traffic accident (RTA) Portal, the online system via which low value personal injury claims are processed.

For disputes with large amounts at stake costs are less of a problem but for most cases, where value ranges from small claims to those worth tens (even low hundreds) of thousands the system is seen by many as prohibitively expensive.

Last year, an advisory group chaired by legal futurist Richard Susskind issued a report, Online Dispute Resolution for Low Value Civil Claims, calling for «radical change in the way that the court system of England and Wales handles low value civil claims.&rValue Civil Claims, calling for «radical change in the way that the court system of England and Wales handles low value civil claims.&Claims, calling for «radical change in the way that the court system of England and Wales handles low value civil claims.&rvalue civil claims.&claims.»

This conference is the latest in a series of conferences being held world - wide on the issue of implementing a global system for ODR for low - value consumer claims.

The government claims it has been working hard to maintain the integrity of Canada's generous immigration system and to strengthen the value of Canadian citizenship.

And the size of the claim should not be the only factor in deciding when the justice system will deem a case too expensive to hear for the value of resolving it on the merits.

By treating the claim as an asset with a value that can be measured in the marketplace, Juridica adds important incentives to the corporate litigation and arbitration system: far greater transparency, reduction of unnecessary costs, faster resolution of cases, and a reduction in frivolous claims — with better outcomes for businesses.

Because State Farm's computer system may undervalue claims, it may be necessary to file a lawsuit to get the fair value of damages.

Topics include restricted damages for whiplash injury, changes to the personal injury small claims limit, the increase in value of claims covered by fixed costs, and the introduction of a tariff system.

«The idea of a system able to withstand thousands of lay people bringing forward claims up to the value of # 5,000 — some of which would be medically complex — without help from qualified solicitors, takes quite a leap of imagination.

Susskind and his colleagues went beyond simply advocating for online dispute resolution: «We should consider not simply improving our court system or even salvaging our traditional ways of resolving low - value claims.

He said that a reason behind extending the fixed fees regime was that the experience of practitioners with the fixed fee regime in low - value claims had been «satisfactory» and that the new costs management system (which had previously been introduced by Jackson) was placing the courts under strain.

However, the introduction of fixed costs regime to all types of claims up to # 250,000 could cause a variety of unintended consequences, and it appears odd that the system is being extended without a substantive review of the current fixed cost regime (applying to personal injury claims up to a maximum value of # 25,000) being undertaken.»

Many policies default to actual cash value, which means if you purchased a widescreen TV and home theater system for $ 1,000, it may now only be worth $ 450, so that's all you'll receive on the claim.