Fairness in Asbestos Compensation Act of 1999: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1283, July 1, 1999U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 199페이지 |
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... RISK . - No damages or other relief shall be awarded in any civil action or arbitration involving an asbestos claim solely for increased risk of cancer or other disease . ( 4 ) PUNITIVE DAMAGES . - No punitive damages shall be awarded ...
... RISK . - No damages or other relief shall be awarded in any civil action or arbitration involving an asbestos claim solely for increased risk of cancer or other disease . ( 4 ) PUNITIVE DAMAGES . - No punitive damages shall be awarded ...
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... risk of disease or other injury , or the costs of medical monitor- ing or surveillance , and including any claim made by or on behalf of any ex- posed person or any representative , spouse , parent , child , or other relative of any ...
... risk of disease or other injury , or the costs of medical monitor- ing or surveillance , and including any claim made by or on behalf of any ex- posed person or any representative , spouse , parent , child , or other relative of any ...
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... risk of asbestos driven bank- ruptcies . The only losers , the only losers , are a few dozen powerful lawyers and those individuals who are not now sick , who will never become sick in the future , and who would have won the jury ...
... risk of asbestos driven bank- ruptcies . The only losers , the only losers , are a few dozen powerful lawyers and those individuals who are not now sick , who will never become sick in the future , and who would have won the jury ...
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... risk of no re- covery no longer justifies such high fees . There are examples of some plaintiffs ' at- torneys charging a fee as high as 50 % of any recovery.22 It is possible that defense costs , which are charged on an hourly basis ...
... risk of no re- covery no longer justifies such high fees . There are examples of some plaintiffs ' at- torneys charging a fee as high as 50 % of any recovery.22 It is possible that defense costs , which are charged on an hourly basis ...
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... risk for the defendants , mak- ing settlement more likely . In the settlement , then , the higher potential jury - award value of the impaired claims is spread , at least partially , to the unimpaired . The arithmetic is straightforward ...
... risk for the defendants , mak- ing settlement more likely . In the settlement , then , the higher potential jury - award value of the impaired claims is spread , at least partially , to the unimpaired . The arithmetic is straightforward ...
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ABELN abnormalities administrative Amchem arbitration asbes asbestos claims Asbestos Compensation Act asbestos defendants asbestos exposure asbestos fibers asbestos litigation asbestos litigation crisis asbestos victims asbestos-related disease asbestos-related impairment asbestosis attorneys awards bestos bill Board-certified Chairman chest x-ray chrysotile civil action claimants class action clinical Committee companies Congress CONYERS Corporation DLCO Edley ensure exceptional medical claims exposed exposure to asbestos Fairness in Asbestos federal courts fees FEV1/FVC Fibreboard filed funding HYDE individuals injury issues joinder judges judicial jumbo consolidation jury Justice latency least-injured liability lung cancer lung function mediation medical categories medical criteria medical eligibility ment mesothelioma MIDDLETON most-injured non-sick occupational Owens Corning parties pending pensation person physicians plaintiffs pleural plaques problem procedures proposed legislation pulmonary function pulmonary function tests punitive damages resolution resolve respondent risk rules settle sick statute of limitations substantial Supreme Court tion tort system verdicts workers
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52 페이지 - There is no federal general common law. Congress has no power to declare substantive rules of common law applicable in a state whether they be local in their nature or "general," be they commercial law or a part of the law of torts. And no clause in the Constitution purports to confer such a power upon the federal courts.
6 페이지 - Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of such term.
11 페이지 - ... warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law...
101 페이지 - All persons may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative, any right to relief in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all of them will arise in the action.
84 페이지 - Northern Pipeline Constr. Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 US 50, 68 (1982) (citing Crowell v.
22 페이지 - For purposes of this section, the term "charitable contribution" means a contribution or gift to or for the use of — (1) A State, a Territory, a possession of the United States, or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, or the United States or the District of Columbia, but only if the contribution or gift is made for exclusively public purposes.
144 페이지 - Chamber of Commerce. The US Chamber is the world's largest federation of business organizations, representing more than three million businesses and professional organizations of every size, in every business sector, and in every region of the country. The Chamber serves as the principal voice of the American business community.
14 페이지 - States district court for the district in which such arbitrators, or a majority of them, are sitting may compel the attendance of such person or persons before said arbitrator or arbitrators, or punish said person or persons for contempt in the same manner provided by law for securing the attendance of witnesses or their punishment for neglect or refusal to attend in the courts of the United States.
196 페이지 - Supervision over either the legislative or the judicial action of the States is in no case permissible except as to matters by the Constitution specifically authorized or delegated to the United States. Any interference with either, except as thus permitted, is an invasion of the authority of the State and, to that extent, a denial of its independence.
101 페이지 - ... questions of law or fact common to the members of the class predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy.