Jokes that circulate by e-mail, especially off-color ones, are not only frowned upon but have also been established as a source of legal liability.
Noting that Congress had given its blessing to this form of health care delivery, he said, "The judiciary has no warrant to precipitate the upheaval that would follow" if the essential structure of managed care was itself a source of legal liability.
For a person to be legally responsible for causing harm to another requires, apart from a number of conditions relating to jurisdiction, procedure and proof, that the conduct should be of the sort that the law designates as unlawful (e.g. negligent driving) or as a potential source of liability (e.g. keeping a dangerous animal).
Such observations suggest that genetic variants that regulate gene expression, rather than disrupt gene structure, may be a major source of liability for, or protection from, complex disorders [ 8, 9].
M.I.A.'s brand of provocation, once a source of admiration, has become a liability.
His investment firm's "apparent lack of profitability," as well as other evidence, the board wrote, "suggested that it may be seriously troubled and a source of potential future costs or liabilities".
Like these studies, our findings suggest that the hospitals should be concerned with family-work conflict as a source of burnout and as a potential liability in terms of quality of care.
This might become a moment that will return to haunt Britain one day, when the pictures of royalty and top politicians posing with the leader of an authoritarian regime will prove to be an embarrassment and a liability rather than a source of pride.
Their run defense, a source of pride earlier in the season, has become a liability.
Agricultural waste producers can transform the liability of waste disposal into a source of income by marketing their waste as a valuable horticultural product (Raviv 2005).
