As Borgerson notes, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty froze all territorial claims and set aside the continent for scientific research.
State laws in California and elsewhere require all insurers to estimate their future claims and set aside enough assets to honor them.
Chubb paid claims and set aside funds to cover more possible payouts to Enron trading partners who say Enron failed to deliver commodities.
The role of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards was to investigate the claims, and set out a view on whether any rules had been broken.
Other tech giants have made similar claims and set similar goals, including Apple, which announced in September that it's joining the RE100 global initiative which comes with a goal of achieving 100percentt renewable energy sourcing.
He then toured the province, selling the package with all the buoyant charm of an insurance-claims adjuster and setting up an election campaign in which he was obliged to talk of little else besides the chaos created by the low price of oil.
"Rumors at that time were mostly related to the kidnapping of Western hostages, with shadowy groups claiming responsibility and setting their conditions to release them," she said.
After repeated rejections and appeals, the Board of Veterans Appeals in 2009 granted part of her claim and set an effective date of 1988 – entitling her to a retroactive payment for benefits starting from that date.
The society, which aids the poor, won the first round of the legal battle in October when a Manhattan judge, Surrogate Eve Preminger, backed its claim and set a strict new standard for diverting funds.
Statement (1) involves both empirical claims, and moral claims, but the empirical claims are surely true, and, setting aside the question of the existence of objective rightmaking and wrongmaking properties, the moral claims are surely also very plausible.
