The stumbling block is Republican insistence that if insurers are to be protected, taxpayers should be, too, by limitations on lawyers' fees and liability payments.
Republicans and some oil-state Democrats opposed the measure, calling it a federal power grab that would raise energy prices and kill thousands of American jobs because of the new fees and liability provision.
From an economic perspective, there are no significant normative differences among such things as licensing fees, tort liability, and taxes: normative differences that would in any event make a difference in how the law should approach them.
Given that only a select few workers possess an employment contract, it's a marginally legal way for the ethanol factories to dodge taxes, employer fees, and liability.
Gloria Allred, the lawyer representing Ms. McCormack Jackson, said Thursday that she had no details of the arrangement struck between Mr. Filner and city officials, but that any resignation deal to pay for Mr. Filner's legal fees and liabilities would amount to a "callous and unholy agreement".
In addition, the plan would institute a new tax on the biggest financial institutions, basing the fee on liabilities in order to discourage risky borrowing.
G&G says it attempts to combat piracy – threatening those showing the fight without paying the licensing fee – with "civil liability for actual and statutory damages in excess of $100,000, injunctive relief, legal costs and attorneys' fees, as well as other severe criminal and civil penalties as provided for by federal copyright and state and federal telecommunications laws".
The Assembly and Senate also passed a bill sought by the rental-car industry that would allow companies to again charge customers a $9-per-day 9-per-dayoid liability for any damage to the car from a collision.
(For example, AMEX provides this to cardholders for a fee).. Liability Insurance Supplement means that if you are at fault and hit another car, the agency pays all damages to the injured party (you know, the one you hit).
Instead of spending many years and millions of dollars in legal fees trying to avoid liability, the three partners — BP, Transocean and Halliburton — ought to jointly accept responsibility and liability.
