Taveras sued in New Jersey, rather than Nevada, underlining an important difference in how defendants measure litigation risk in certain venues.
We are not convinced that managers who charge excessive fees and even disclose to clients that their fees are higher-than-necessary, are free of litigation risk.
Hence regulatory or litigation risk might prompt you to steer clear.
Reputation risk (in particular, the risk of being tainted by your customer's lack of honesty), litigation risk and conflicts of interest have moved high up the agenda.
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"If something like this were to pass, it would dramatically change business models, just because of the litigation risk, " says Kurt Pfotenhauer, chief lobbyist for the Mortgage Bankers Association.
"I don't know if this is the death knell for Barclays' bid, but right now, if you put aside the litigation risk, you'd have to say RBS is out in front, " Oriel Securities analyst Mike Trippitt told Thomson Financial.
How many hedge funds refuse to reserve sufficiently for potential litigation and repurchase risk for breaches of warranties and representations in their loan portfolios?
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Cloud computing, adoption of mobile devices, leveraging social networking and big-data practices also pose challenges in terms of adoption, integration, supervision, security, litigation and other risk management.
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Wells Fargo is not free of all risk of litigation stemming from the 2008 credit crisis, however.
Whenever fiduciaries fail to meet the standard of care required of them, theoretically they face the risk of litigation.
However, the trust has said it would be at risk of litigation if it made any of the findings public.
We have a tax structure encouraging debt over equity, and we have a litigation atmosphere discouraging taking risk, going public and pushing the envelope.
But Ms Maslow says government work can expose contractors to a greater risk of litigation, because a company may have unwittingly failed to comply with government regulations.
Many inventors have great ideas but nowhere near the time, capital, or even the desire to risk more dollars and years of their lives that it would take to wage this sort of litigation campaign, which is full of risk.
Provide receipts and other supporting information if the IRS asks, but what if you have memos and letters from tax advisers about whether you qualify for a deduction, audit risk or potential tax litigation?
These two examples from my work as an expert witness in securities litigation illustrate an important point about risk: We must learn to distinguish between our own willingness to take financial risk and our ability to do so.
The audit giants might decide that their dwindling numbers make them increasingly visible targets for regulatory interventions and litigation, and they might become more risk averse.
That's where LFL's new owners come in, getting into the growing market of litigation funding - that is, raising risk capital with the prospect of a big share of eventual pay-outs.
This ignores the fact that the vast bulk of litigation in this country is relatively low-risk stuff like processing automobile claims.
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Birth control drugs, for example, "are very low-risk but attract a huge amount of litigation because people don't perceive the benefits to be as great, " says Edward Richards, a professor of tort law at Louisiana State University.
Immediately after the Sarbanes-Oxley law was passed, audit firms were unwilling to risk scrutiny by the PCAOB and potential litigation under Sarbanes-Oxley over questionable accounting treatments or ones they were possibly coerced into agreeing to or ignoring for the sake of the relationship.
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They need only look to football helmet manufacturer Riddell, which finds itself embroiled in litigation for allegedly failing to protect players from the long-term risk of concussions and falsely marketing its helmets as having the ability to reduce the risk of concussions by a substantial percentage.
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If lawyers are able to spend 60 cents instead of a dollar on litigation expenses, they will naturally take chances on riskier suits because their risk-adjusted cost of doing business has gone down.
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