In response to claims that the threat of environmental liability under the Superfund law deters the acquisition of potentially contaminated sites (or “brownfields”) for redevelopment, the federal government has adopted programs to protect purchasers from liability. This protection may be unwarranted, however, if sellers can simply adjust property prices downward to compensate buyers for this li...

III. LIABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY: UNCOVERING AND POLICING ADVERSE EVENTS 65 A. The Obligation to Disclose Adverse Events 67 1. Refining the parameters of adverse events 69 2. Mandatory adverse event reporting 72 3. Sharpening the adverse event definition 74 4. Improving mandatory reporting 75 5. Bans on confidentiality agreements for adverse event claims 76 B. Malpractice Insurance as a Tool for...

Dra. Rosana Herminia Scola – Serviço de Doenças Neuromusculares / Hospital de Clínicas da UFPR – Rua General Carneiro 181 / 3o andar 80060-900 Curitiba PR – Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal dominant peripheral neuropathy characterized by recurrent episodes of paralysis of peripheral nerves, usually after a minor tra...

This article examines university liability created by internship and consulting relationships. Business clients participating in outreach relationships formulate performance expectations based on perceptions of experience and / or qualifications. Clients assign tasks accordingly, and the university incurs liability that is conditioned by business clients’ expectations. Substantial liability is ...

We evaluate the impact of joint-liability incentives in the classroom using a randomized field experiment. The instructor design groups of three students in the classroom and provides a premium to their homework's grade only if all three members of the group accomplish some requirements. We find that joint-liability incentives impact positively on the grades accomplished in homework and midterm...

Although I hate to begin a serious article on an important Supreme Court case this way, the Court’s recent decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States1 reminds me of nothing so much as the old Woody Allen line that ‘‘[s]ex without love is an empty experience . . . but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.’’2 This is because for all practical purposes, Andersen is a meaningless dec...

(a) there are certain areas where the guidelines are silent or virtually silent. This is particularly notable in relation to the economic assessment of mergers in local markets and in bidding markets. These issues are described further at Section 5 below. We would welcome an extension of the guidelines to deal with these issues, which regularly impact on merger assessment by the OFT and the CC;...

The NanoEL is an Erasmus LLP project about sharing technology and human resources. Knowledge and information made available at project partner’s universities, in order to develop teaching material in the form of courses or modules within the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology.

Noting that the risk of malpractice liability poses a significant barrier to the provision of volunteer health care in this country, the author analyzes current state and federal legislative approaches designed to overcome the hurdle, including a changed standard of care for malpractice liability from simple negligence to gross negligence, governmental indemnification of volunteer providers, an...