They developed country-level data by examining how much property insurance companies bought in each country and then used that to estimate their level of legal exposure, backing out the cost of liability insurance cost from that.
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There will be a need for other actions to reduce liability or cost of compliance obligations.
Moreover, the Exchange subsidies available to those with incomes between 100 and 138 percent of poverty would limit their insurance premiums to 2 percent of their income and would limit their liability for cost sharing to 6 percent of the actuarial value of the plan.
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Alas, the next best alternative is also rife with problems of cost, liability, and politics.
But the Home Office argued this liability was not a cost of closure as it reflected an existing deficit in the pension scheme.
This means the Navy will incur a huge fiscal liability with the true cost of these DDG 51 ships, effectively doubling their initial cost on paper.
The researchers calculated the cost of liability to be 1.66% of GDP in the U.S., compared with an average of .63% for Eurozone countries and less than .5% in Denmark, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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If healthcare is a cost or a liability to a third party, the tendency is to seek to reduce costs.
Entrant further agrees that in any cause of action, the Giveaway Entities' liability will be limited to the cost of entering and participating in the Giveaway, and in no event shall the Giveaway Entities be liable for attorney's fees.
Corporations are controlling their cost by simply passing on liability to the employees and their families.
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But that was before the withdrawal of painkiller Vioxx opened the door to more than 11, 000 product-liability lawsuits that most analysts expect to cost the company many billions of dollars.
But as outlined above, that can come at the cost of ill health, added liability, or poor morale.
The new law and the threat of litigation it brings probably have something to do with the out-of-control cost of directors' and officers' liability insurance.
Regardless of the time wasted, no company can easily afford the time and cost of human resource issues or even liability concerns when employees are faced with unwanted content or personal privacy boundaries are breached.
We would -- we've got plans to lower cost, to change purchasing models, address medical liability, insurance accountability, chronic and preexisting conditions, and access to affordable care for those with those conditions, insurance portability, expanded access -- but not doing it with creating more government, more bureaucracy, and more cost for the American taxpayer.
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Ultimately, it is providing a free service, and recognizes no liability for damage done by the withdrawal of that service beyond the cost of the service.
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But the point would be that billions in medical expense liability would be lifted off the backs of Americans for a relatively cheap cost.
Many tax expenditures, mostly those that take the form of refundable credits, not only cost millions of dollars in terms of a reduction in tax liability, but also generate millions of dollars of tax fraud.
We cannot debate the potential for medical liability reform to bring down health-care costs in any meaningful way without realistic cost estimates.
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This case is sure to cost Merck and its insurers billions in damages and may spread a pall of legal liability over other drugmakers.
Corporate directors and executives can be sued and even face criminal liability if the company fails to properly disclose business risks--including, many now worry, the cost of emissions.
Airlines now have to carry mileage liability at the "fair value" of what the award credits could be sold for, instead of estimating the cost in fuel and service to give away otherwise empty seats.
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