It also covers the liability of persons, such as parents, who have legal responsibility for actions of the driver.
"The wilful killing of one individual by another is being reported, not the criminal liability of the person or persons involved," he said.
That a corporation is a "person" at law was for Bentham merely a fiction that could be cashed out in terms of the notion of legal standing and of limits to the financial liability of real persons.
And while we're doing this we need to join forces with the growing national movement to get corporate money out of politics and the media and to take away the fictitious "corporate personhood" (i.e. the legal right of corporations to have all the rights of human citizens, without the responsibility, obligations, and liability of real persons) of Monsanto and the corporate elite.
The court today avoided the 11th Amendment issue, ruling instead that the act's reference to the liability of "any person" who commits fraud against the government does not refer to states, at least when the plaintiff is a private individual.
The act of payment engages the liability of the person who makes it.
The account presupposes a certain understanding of responsibility and liability: a person is responsible for a state of affairs only by virtue of that person's voluntary, i.e., informed and free, act or omission that has a sufficiently strong connection with that state of affairs, and thereby becomes liable to some proportionately unfavorable response.
The analysis factored in policy limits of $100,000 for injury liability for one person, $300,000 for all injuries and a $500 deductible on collision and comprehensive coverage.
Policies are written to cover liability of the owner or operator for bodily injury to passengers or to persons other than passengers and for property damage.
He estimated that the average person could buy $10 million of personal liability for $1,750 a year.
Open Society Foundations (OSF) describes command responsibility as, "legal liability of a commander or civilian superior for crimes committed by subordinate members of armed forces or other persons under their control".
