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liability

Malpractice All character of obligation, amenability, and responsibility for an act before the law. See Corporate liability, Current liability, Limits of liability, Malpractice Product liability, Professional liability, Strict liability.

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Ipagpalagay na nating natapos niya ang sentence niya o kaya ipagpalagay natin hypothetically napalaya siya, does the civil liability remain?

Sanchez camp has 'no intention' of paying damages? What happens next?

The prosecution is urging the Sandiganbayan to grant its motion and issue a Writ of Execution regarding the civil liability of Revilla.

Hold Revilla civilly liable, Sandiganbayan urged

The Bill aims to provide a civil liability for nuclear damage and prompt compensation to the victims of a nuclear incident through a no fault liability to the operator, appointment of Claims Commissioner, establishment of Nuclear Damage Claims Commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Supreme Court to decide over nuclear civil liability: Narayanasamy

Instead, the Commission recommends that each member state should take measures to limit liability according to its own preferred method, while simultaneously stating that any limitation of civil liability should not prevent parties from being fairly compensated.

Counting on Europe: liability limits on auditing in the European Union will have global implications

Second, these provisions also would expose creditors to substantial additional civil liability risk in litigation by creating a new set of requirements that will be subject to civil liability under the act generally and by increasing these penalties for violations of the new provisions tenfold.

Statement by Lawrence B. Lindsey, member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, May 27, 1992

One solution, of course, is to adopt the German approach, which takes a rather restrictive view of the independent auditor's civil liability. This might include capping auditor's liability, possibly at a multiple of a reasonable fee for the services performed.

Reinventing the audit; a bold framework to enable CPAs to demonstrate a renewed commitment to the public interest

For years these groups had fought over the state's civil liability laws.

Frank Fat's napkin; how the trial lawyers (and the doctors!) sold out to the tobacco companies

The first is one where the accused is found to have nothing to do with the act or omission complained of - which 'closes the door to civil liability.'

Mendoza's 'power of persuasion'

The graft court also ordered him to pay the government P360,000 as civil liability for each count or a total of P7.56 million.

Ex-mayor, former DOTC official, 2 others jailed for 'ghost deliveries'

Summary: His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, has issued Federal Law by Decree No 4 of 2012, Concerning Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage.

UAE Issues Nuclear Liability Law

As demanded by the bills, the Parliament allowed the Iranian government to join the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) and Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage.