"We don't think America suffers from a lack of litigation," he said.
Her affable and energetic challenger, Betty Williams, a senior hearing officer with the New York City Board of Education, was rated "not approved," apparently for lack of litigation experience, by the City Bar Association.
Reputation risk (in particular, the risk of being tainted by your customer's lack of honesty), litigation risk and conflicts of interest have moved high up the agenda.
Were we routinely to consider questions beyond those raised in the petition, the respondent would lack any opportunity in advance of litigation on the merits to argue that such questions are not worthy of review.
The reasons for the decline are multifaceted and include escalating cost of autopsy borne by hospitals and county medical examiners, lack of direct reimbursement, fear of litigation, and increasing reliance on modern technology to determine a diagnosis antemortem (10 ).
There were several factors that may have induced inappropriate antibiotic prescription, including diagnostic uncertainty, socio-cultural and economic pressures, lack of knowledge, and fear of litigation [ 50, 51].
Other factors not demonstrated in previous AEFI studies that have been associated with under-reporting of ADR include fear of litigation; indifference; lack of financial incentives to report and a belief that only safe drugs are released into the market [ 24, 25].
Limitations include underreporting due to time constraints, lack of adequate reporting systems, fear of litigation, a reluctance to report one's own errors, uncertainty of the clinical importance of the events, and the lack of changes after reporting.
Common to many of these cases that ended up in litigation were lack of timely diagnosis, lack of timely transfusion, and reoperation [45].
In contrast, former officials said that the lack of new cases in Special Litigation is a major problem.
Development might be slowed, too, by the investor uncertainty created by a lack of customers for, and endless litigation against, Canada's tar sands infrastructure.
