Sentence examples for curb liability from inspiring English sources

The approach, known as judge-directed negotiation, is seen by the Obama administration as offering states a way to curb liability expenses that have sharply increased health care costs nationally.

Much of it will come from repealing parts of the president's health care law and curbing medical liability lawsuits.

The backers of the measure, which would curb jury awards in medical liability cases against obstetricians and gynecologists, fell 12 votes short of the 60 necessary to have the bill considered by the Senate.

He also increased the retirement age and curbed benefits, but the unfunded liability continued to grow.

But, perversely, this may not make it any easier to get bills passed in Washington.In the first round of negotiations with the tobacco firms, which ended last June, Mr Moore and his allies struck a deal that curbed the industry's legal liability in exchange for its commitment to restrict advertising, and for its willingness to submit to penalties if under-age smoking did not fall substantially.

In my view the problem for health care will only be solved by creating standardized health insurance plans that organizations, both private and public, can compete to offer efficiently, by creating a common standard of care that helps reduce wasteful spending, by curbing the excesses of tort liability and by giving consumers incentives for healthy behavior.

The most effective way of curbing predatory practices is to withdraw limited liability and hold the shareholders and directors of these enterprises personally liable.

In the statement, Dr. Gingrey's office provided on Tuesday, he defended curbing damages under new legislation: "Too often our medical liability system benefits third parties over patients, allowing investors and law firms to reap huge percentages of rewards instead of the injured parties who need them most".

Each country wants to limit its liability for the debt of others and to curb the interference of peers in its economic policies.

AMERICA'S new Class Action Fairness Act seeks to curb frivolous class-action lawsuits against companies in areas such as product liability and labour law, mainly by redirecting more of them to federal courts and so denying lawyers scope to "forum-shop" among biddable state courts.

Thursday, 15 May 1997: The possibility of a setback in efforts to settle tobacco liability cases in the United States does not relieve governments of responsibility to curb the industry's power to entrap children and adolescents elsewhere in the world, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said today.