"acknowledge liability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an acceptance of responsibility for something. For example, "The company acknowledged liability for the safety breach and promised to take corrective action."
Company officials said they settled the claim without acknowledging liability.
The hospital and other defendants agreed to the settlement without acknowledging liability.
The chemical companies, including Eastman Kodak and DuPont, have reached settlements with more than 200 I.B.M. workers, though without acknowledging liability.
The Donmar Warehouse, in its defense, acknowledged liability for the accident but is asking that the prop specialists who it says supplied the gun, History in the Making Ltd., also contribute to the damages, according to the BBC.
A12 Killer Admits Civil Liability The parents of three Kentucky girls slain by a schoolmate, Michael Carneal, accepted a settlement of their claims against him in which he acknowledged liability.
A lawyer for the airline, Christopher Carlsen, said EgyptAir acknowledged liability because it believed that eventually either it would pay the families or Boeing would, and that there was no reason to make the families wait.
Today, saying they would appeal all the rulings against them, the families of the three girls accepted a settlement of their claims against Mr. Carneal in which he acknowledged liability for the deaths and set damages at $42 million, an amount the families are never likely to collect.
And Merck has never acknowledged liabilities in connection with lawsuits filed by thousands of patients alleging that they suffered health problems after taking Vioxx, although the company agreed in 2007 to a $4.85 billion settlement in the United States.
The mean age of the patient in which the court's decision acknowledged physician liability was significantly younger (40.41 ± 19.72 years) than those in which the court's decision did not acknowledge physician liability (50.53 ± 20.62 year) (p = 0.029).
As part of the settlement, Florida Power & Light did not admit any violations or acknowledge any liability.
