Article: The reasonable person negligence standard and liability insurance.

Article: LABOR LAW MUST INCLUDE NEGLIGENCE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 10, 2001 ;     688 words ... ... labor law. The Legislature needs to replace the strict liability standard with a more reasonable negligence standard. A negligence standard would still hold contractors and property owners responsible for providing safe job sites while reducing ...

Article: Cost-benefit analysis and the negligence standard
Vanderbilt Law Review;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... prelude to any attempt to reformulate the content of the negligence standard in a Restatement (Third), and I think that Gilles ... benefit analysis as the fundamental characteristic of the negligence standard, since it is sometimes appropriate for restatements to ...

Article: Allocating risk for hazardous waste cleanups. (pollution ...
USA Today (Magazine);  January 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... state laws require that an RAC be found at fault under a negligence standard in order to be held liable. Most states, however, do ... responsible for the original wastes. Even in those that have a negligence standard, RACs find themselves subject to considerable exposure ...

Article: RTC seeks simple negligence standard to sue ...
American Banker;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- The Resolution Trust Corp. is arguing in a federal court that it has a common-law right to sue directors of banks under an easy-to-prove standard of negligence. Its claim is contrary to the rulings of two federal appellate courts and numerous district courts. Those decisions hold that

Article: Supreme Court rules against CSX under relaxed negligence ...
U.S. Rail News;  November 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed with a CSX Corp. employee in determining that railroads and other employers can be liable for workers' injuries under a relaxed standard of negligence. The relaxed standard can be implied in the language of the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), the

Article: Research conducted at Colorado State University has provided new ...
Insurance Weekly News;  January 2, 2009 ;     649 words ... ... demand for liability insurance. Potential ... below the negligence standard. For these ... comply with the negligence standard, wrote V ... Reasonable Person Negligence Standard and Liability Insurance. Journal ...

Article: Liability insurance key to work safety
China Daily;  June 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Increased use of liability insurance will not only improve workplace ... to look at ways in which liability insurance can be promoted in China ... to speed up the growth of liability insurance. "CIRC encourages the establishment ...