liability claim

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meaningsofliabilityandclaim

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liability
noun
uk
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact that someone is legally responsible ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk
/kleɪm/
us
/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofliabilityandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Individual lawsuits continued to fail because most states had laws shielding blood products from traditional product liability claims.
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Similarly, ignorance of what constitutes good clinical practice is not a defense to a professionalliabilityclaim.
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Even the threat of an employers'liabilityclaimcould often be useful in leveraging a greater settlement under the workmen's compensation act.
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Common law remedies also remained intact, but if employees brought a common law or employers'liabilityclaimand lost, they were barred from subsequent workmen's compensation action.
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One person might have a claim—effectively an employer'sliabilityclaim—while another might not.
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The potential for such liability claims will provide private parties with an added incentive to bring cases.
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A new concern is the potential for liability claims associated with unwanted transgenes in local crops.
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Many of us are getting reports that voluntary organisations that run ambulance services face substantial employer liability or public liability claims.
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The authority is however holding reserves of around £23 million for employers' liability and £6 million for public liability claims in respect of these claims.
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I need hardly mention the huge cost to the national health service of liability claims—it exceeds £600 million a year.
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It is to deal with competition, antidumping and steel matters and also with certain non-contractual liability claims and with staff cases.
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All that is required under the common law, to a lesser extent in employers' liability claims, and probably to a still lesser extent in workmen's compensation claims.
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In that capacity she assists in the defence of medical treatment liability claims made against public hospitals and their employees.
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Physician advocacy groups say 60% of liability claims against doctors are dropped, withdrawn, or dismissed without payment.
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It continued its bankruptcy court proceedings which will ultimately lead to settling liability claims.
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Strict liability also applies to some types of product liability claims and to copyright infringement and some trademark cases.
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