For example, a plan with a $10 billion liability based on an 8percentt discount rate would see that amount leap to $13.56 billion if a 5.5percentt rate were used.
These critics advocate discounting pension liabilities based on a low-risk rate of return, akin to one for a very safe bond.
People should be free to leave their lovers, and even "flaunt" their new relationships, without a government agency deciding whether such behavior was "unreasonabl[e]" and imposing legal liability based on such a decision.
Physicians should also be aware that the liability based on inappropriate use of a non-FDA-approved drug can be significant, and possible negative consequences can include the invalidation of their malpractice insurance, personal liability and possible criminal prosecution.
Under the proposal, issued jointly by the international board, which sets rules for many countries around the globe, and by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which writes the United States rules, an airline entering into a lease for a plane would show an asset of the right to use the plane and an equal liability based on the current value of the lease payments it has promised to make.
Existing common law rules imply, however, that while he could not exclude liability based on the contract, he could exclude liability with a sign disclaiming such, as with other visitors to the property.
Victims' lawyers point out that they are asking for a narrow ruling of liability, based on the egregious facts of this case alone: the catastrophe unleashed by the UN and its refusal to provide any forum for victims to seek a remedy.
They profess a view of responsibility and liability based on extremely far-fetched connections between states of affairs and human choices and actions, and argue that entire social classes or nations are responsible for certain policies and practices and all their members are liable to be attacked by deadly violence (see 2.1 below).
Large institutional plaintiffs like some of Enron's lenders, which are also potential defendants in suits by Enron shareholders, want to be able to reduce their liability based on Andersen's share of responsibility for Enron's collapse.
In 2000, the FCC issued seven so-called Notices of Apparent Liability based on the 111 complaints.
Most require some form of intention or knowledge on the part of the offender and this leads to difficulty in establishing liability based on available evidence.
