Congress nears action on vicarious liability bill.(News)

Automotive News;  May 30, 2005 ;     407 words ......solving their problems with vicarious liability. Congress is near final...legal concept is known as vicarious liability. Sixteen states, including...California and New York, have vicarious liability laws. Several of those...

Feds bar vicarious liability lawsuits.(News)

Automotive News;  August 8, 2005 ;     410 words ......The new federal highway bill bars vicarious liability lawsuits nationwide. President Bush...measure Wednesday, Aug. 10. Under vicarious liability, a person who is hurt in a crash...16 states recognize some form of vicarious liability. The industry, including automakers...

U.K. employers face vicarious liability for workplace bullies.(World)

Business Insurance;  July 24, 2006 ;     669 words ......the case, saying the principle of vicarious liability did not apply under the harassment...lawsuits. The House of Lords disagreed. Vicarious liability arises only if the new wrong is...which an employer is exempt from vicarious liability. It is true that this new wrong...

GMAC may pull leases from 3 states; Vicarious liability is cited as...

Automotive News;  January 20, 2003 ;     377 words ......unless those states change their vicarious liability laws. As an interim step, GMAC raised...The cost is passed to consumers. Vicarious liability means that an accident victim can...companies have been lobbying against vicarious liability for at least a decade. Vicarious...

CONSIDER: WHO IS DRIVING THE CREDIT UNION MERGER?

Credit Union Management;  August 1, 2008 ;     411 words ...Credit union officials involved in a potential merger with another credit union must act in the best of interests of their respective...merger opportunity is available-whether their credit union will be the continuing credit union or the merging...

Managing vicarious liability.

M2 Presswire;  May 28, 2002 ;     297 words ......May 2002-UK Government: Managing vicarious liability (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...forbidden them. This is known as vicarious liability . The Charity Commission today publishes...this area of the law for trustees. Vicarious liability of a charity or its trustees is...

Renting, Leasing Group Seeks to Cut 'Vicarious Liability' Awards

Transport Topics;  January 19, 2004 ;     506 words ......damages awarded in what he called "vicarious liability" judgments. "We've been effective...federal pre-emption." Vroom said that vicarious liability insurance laws allow the owner of...commercial vehicles in states where vicarious liability laws are on the books. Through last...

Accountability of public authorities through contextualized determinations...

University of New Brunswick Law Journal;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......de-contextualized constructions of when vicarious liability and breach of non-delegable duties...qualifies as an employee for purposes of vicarious liability, and (b) when a non-delegable duty...qualifies as an employee for purposes of vicarious liability and when non-delegable ...

vicarious liability

A Dictionary of Law;      381 words ...vicarious liability (vicarious responsibility) Legal...The purpose of the doctrine of vicarious liability is to ensure that an employer...his business operations. His vicarious liability, however, is in addition to the...

Oneok Employee Credit Union Placed Under Conservatorship

The Journal Record;  June 25, 1994 ;     563 words ...A Tulsa credit union was placed under conservatorship Friday by the National Credit Union Administration for "operating in an unsafe and unsound manner." Oneok Employees Credit Union was placed under the control of the federal...

CREDIT UNION LOSES APPEAL OF DISAFFILIATION DECISION

The Journal Record;  January 23, 1987 ;     522 words ...First State Credit Union lost its appeal of an Oklahoma State Credit Union Board decision to let two groups of municipal...disaffiliate from First State and join Tinker Credit Union, according to a ruling released Thursday by Oklahoma...

Educating people about the CU difference. (credit union) (Executive Suite)

Credit Union Executive;  July 1, 1994 ;     660 words ...Can your credit union's staff really explain the difference...Spokane has a high percentage of credit union membership, and it's not a large...members are media types. When they do a credit union story, they call us. Eight months...

NY on wrong road with liability.(Viewpoint, vicarious liability)

Crain's New York Business;  April 5, 2004 ;     405 words ......legal doctrine known as unlimited vicarious liability. Late last month, New Yorkers learned...that primarily benefit lawyers. Vicarious liability holds the owner of a car liable...Trial lawyers and their clients use vicarious liability to play the litigation lottery game...

Bill 18: Are Renters Covered for Vicarious Liability?

Canadian Underwriter;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......because of a legal concept known as 'vicarious liability.' Vicarious liability arises when a person has control or...arrangements such as with banks. The vicarious liability problem facing leasing and rental companies...

CREDIT UNION IN BARTLESVILLE SEEKS MERGER

The Journal Record;  September 21, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Reda Employees Credit Union of Bartlesville could be liquidated...said Tuesday at the monthly Oklahoma Credit Union Board meeting in Oklahoma City. Osborn made a plea to the three other credit union board members and credit union officials...