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SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOLDS A HEARING ON LIABILITY AND LEGAL CAP INFLUENCE ON THE OIL INDUSTRY
JUNE 8, 2010
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Long stationery with a wide left-hand margin and a narrow right-hand margin, used by attorneys.
The trend of the courts is ...
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C. officials plan to ask Congress to lift a cap on legal fees in special-education cases against the District's school system, which was enacted years ago to prevent abuses and stem rising costs.
I can assure you that I would support removal of the fee cap for special-education cases," Mayor Adrian M. Fenty wrote in a recent letter to U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan Democrat.
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Concerns about legal fees trail Rosemead's city attorney, Bonifacio Garcia.
Officials at several cities have complained about high bills, questionable charges and lack of city attorney experience.
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The demand for environmental insurance is definitely growing. Such growth is in stark contrast to the insurance industry in general and indicates that revenue opportunities are available to agents and brokers who have the necessary product knowledge and insurance market access to seize them. This article will review some of the more common forms of environmental insurance available to producers and their clients. They include: 1. pollution legal liability insurance, 2. cost cap coverage, 3. liability buyout/liability transfer, 4. lenders liability pollution/secured creditor insurance, 5. storage tank liability insurance, 6. combined commercial general liability and pollution legal liability policies, 7. contractors pollution liability, and 8. professional liability for environmental ser...
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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin isnt budgeting for any state employee pay raises or new prisons next year as the state digs in to shore up a more than $300 million gap in funding for Medicaid. Thats to ensure taxpayers wont have to absorb any new taxes to foot the states growing health care bill. Tomblin is submitting a $4.5 billion balanced budget to lawmakers this week for the state fiscal year that begins July 1. The budget relies on $4.1 billion in general revenue tax collections about $134 million more than last year. Additional revenue will come from leftover surpluses from the prior fiscal year and lottery proceeds. The budget will grow by about $126 million over the $4.4 billion budget signed into law last year. The biggest growth in spending can be tied to one word: Medicaid. The state ...
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In Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie the EAT confirmed, not for the first time, that the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations cannot be used to challenge d...
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Rooftop of Virginia CAP has contracted with the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to carry out the Indoor Plumbing and Rehabilita...
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Being impressed by John Speranza is nothing new to his colleagues in the legal profession.
But now, the long-time local trial attorney has an extra feather in his cap -- an informal dinner with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Yakima City Council engaged in two protracted squabbles Tuesday night, first over Councilman Rick Ensey's legal fees and then over Mayor Dave Edler's membership in a national gun control group.
Two weeks ago the council agreed to pay Ensey's legal fees against a proposed recall effort over his role in a vote to change Yakima's budget policy earlier this year.