Unliquidated obligations include liabilities for costs of personal services incurred and the cost of contracts and purchase orders entered into at 31 December 1997.
The monitoring system will require extensive cooperation from state and local health departments and hospitals to resolve a number of issues, including liability for the health professionals involved.
Since coverage typically includes liability for all members of your household, including your pets, insurers are particular about which dog breeds they'll insure.
Still, the measure is not perfect, Ms. Stover said, because it does not include liability protection for the manufacturers.
The free version covers veterinary care for guest dogs and dogs owned by the host, up to $2,000; it doesn't, however, include liability coverage for the host.
Still other considerations must include liability, even criminal, for those not properly storing, maintaining or selling firearms.
In an editorial about the new series, Dr. Wachter and his colleagues wrote that the medical profession -- "for reasons that include liability issues and a medical culture that has discouraged open discussion of mistakes" -- was not harnessing the full power of errors to teach.
Dr. Scheld said the Bush administration needed to address a number of issues to put the plan into effect, "including liability protections for health professionals who provide immunizations, compensation for those who may be injured by the vaccine, and screening procedures to protect those at greatest risk from adverse reactions".
"For this reason we may require tenants with pets to secure renters insurance, which includes liability coverage for pets and names Fannie Mae as an additional insured".
There are serious legal obstacles to winning such a suit, including liability protection for vaccine manufacturers (see sidebar).
