'assign liability' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in legal or business contexts when referring to assigning responsibility to a person or organization for a particular action or event. For example: "The court assigned liability to the contractor for the failure of the construction project."
It is time to legally assign liability for breakdowns in online security to those best able to manage the risks, which will lead to shifting most of those risks to insurers.
She and her team crafted new legislation to assign liability for companies that created toxic waste and re-energized cleanup efforts.
With Boeing 737 Max 8 jets grounded worldwide, and the search to assign liability in full swing, worried Boeing retirees are asking what happens to their pensions if Boeing does not survive this tragedy.
The Online Publishers Association, the trade group representing big ad-supported Web publishers, opposes establishing actual laws regulating behavioral targeting or making the FTC's current self-regulatory principles a de-facto legal system that would assign liability to Web sites that violate them.
From there they assign liability.
In her first term she introduced a bill to lend $20 million per year to small businesses (HR5322) and an amendment to assign liability to credit reporting agencies.
Assigning liability for the disaster has proved more difficult.
Determining the number of pills, the location and the distributors can be a major factor in assigning liability.
This is the idea that if making deals in the marketplace costs nothing, it won't matter how the law assigns liability.
In designing and implementing an international greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme, assigning liability rules has been considered to be one of the most challenging issues.
Finally, a judge and jury would hear arguments, and there might even be a decision that assigned liability for the trauma suffered on football fields.
