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...Currently, plaintiffs mostly bring cases in states where companies are headquartered or incorporated....
...Classification societies that issue quality assurance certificates to indicate a ship’s compliance with regulations and safety standards are exempted from the cap, but this could be removed to ratchet up...
...“Investors want assurances there are standards in place if they themselves become liable.”...
...Currently only trusts that have a tax liability must report information to the register....
...addressed further up the supply chain, reducing their liability....
...Trusts are often used for estate planning and inheritance planning — frequently in combination with life assurance policies....
...“If the next management team didn’t uphold that obligation, there’d be legal liability that the company would take on.”...
...Shareholders are shielded from catastrophe by limited liability and can usually shrug off fines....
...Companies are considered UK tax resident if they are incorporated or “centrally managed and controlled” in the UK — in other words, key decision-making takes place in the country....
...“Catastrophe insurance is interesting because it will help society price some of these risks, says Mona Shah, who launched Stonehage Fleming’s global sustainable investment portfolios....
...Rather, it has been relegated to being an awkward outlier, often a space now barely inhabited or used, expensive to maintain, a liability....
...The move has been widely interpreted as a step to curtail freedoms in the administrative region, with enormous ramifications for both business and civil society....
...These days trusts are often used in wills for estate planning and are frequently combined with life assurance policies....
...Beiman, the steel plant, defaulted on a series of bonds and was declared bankrupt by a local court, with Rmb7.3bn in liabilities....
...At the time, he vowed to support investigative reporting to promote greater transparency in society. Mr Lebedev and his father have since invested millions into the titles....
...Athene, which is also named as a defendant in the New York suit by Caldera, said the allegations were “flawed” and that New York courts lack jurisdiction over the Bermuda-incorporated company....
...Having women on boards and in senior management positions of companies is globally good for business and society....
...That is what Andrea had done in 2008 — and received assurances from the watchdogs that they were on the case....
...It was a visual chronicle of contemporary society, culture, education and art, and a unique, historical showcase of human ingenuity and creativity through photography....
...It is, by its nature, subversive, the precise opposite of the assurances about society provided by such earlier small screen luminaries as Walter Cronkite, Marcus Welby MD and Friends....
...The loans were taken over by the government when B&B was bailed out in 2008 and the former building society’s branches and deposits were bought by Santander while its other assets and liabilities were transferred...
...But uncertainties do exist in the market, which cannot be simply eliminated by some words of assurance. The central bank is neither God nor magician that could just wipe the uncertainties out....
...It meant humility, I was told, but humility with a quiet self-assurance. That self-assurance seemed well-deserved....
...Rajnath Singh, the home minister, told parliament on Tuesday that Delhi police are considering Uber’s “legal liability” in the rape case....
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