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Liability
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TortsProf Blog
Guest Blogger Tom Baker: “Liability and Insurance: New Developments”
I’d like to use the opportunity to alert torts profs to the new American Law Institute Principles of Liability Insurance project and my forthcoming book with Sean Griffith, Ensuring Corporate…
Government Contracts & Investigations Blog
Let’s Just Eliminate All Pretense Of Balance
By John W. Chierichella and W. Bruce Shirk Under our system of laws, legal liability has customarily been based on certain showings, e.g., that an act or omission actually caused…
InsureReinsure
UK: Law Commission Publishes Issues Paper 8 on Brokers’ Liability for Premiums
On 19 July 2010, the Law Commission published an Issues Paper on the broker's liability for premiums under Section 53 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906.
Real Property & Environmental Law Alert
Gulf Coast Spill Impacts Legislation in Trenton, NJ
By Gibbons P.C.
This summer, the long shadow cast by the oil rig blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico seems to be everywhere. For example, we recently reported that EPA has written to…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Senate Consideration of Oil Spill Liability Cap
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
This week the U.S. Senate has been holding hearings to consider legislation that would lift or alter the liability cap for oil spills. Under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act (33…
Marler Blog
Environmental Health Specialists – Food Safety and Liability
By Bill Marler
Had a great opportunity to speak to a group of folks on the front line of food safety - Environmental Health Inspectors. What was most interesting was that there were…
Equine Law Blog
Horse Insurance 101: Special Event Liability
By Alison Rowe
Special Event Liability insurance will be the final topic of this week's discussion about the various types of equine liability insurance available for purchase. If you are hosting an event such…
inversecondemnation.com
Vermont Supreme Court: Snow Is A Fact Of Life In Vermont
"Our decision today recognizes that snow and snowplowing are facts of life in Vermont, and we do not find a cause of action when defendant has done nothing more than…
The Right Coast
Is Goldman Sachs liable? Tom Smith
Pretty good discussion here.More here.
Proskauer on Privacy
Bellwether or Bust? Washington Governor Signs Payment Card Data Breach Liability Provisions Into Law
On March 22, 2010, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed H.B. 1149 into law, making her state the second behind Minnesota to hold businesses and governmental entities responsible to financial institutions…