Due to the real costs of non-compliance, compliance officers are under pressure to deliver high-quality outcomes, with the added stress of potentially being held personally liable for organizational behavior and conduct.
And school officials, sobered by a spate of lawsuits that have found them liable for the behavior of students, have started to confront activity they may have ignored in the past.
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today that a school district must be held liable for the behavior of a principal who was charged with taking sexually suggestive pictures of young boys in his school in Bergen County.
It was the first time in the 25-year history of the church's sex abuse scandals that the leader of an American diocese has been held criminally liable for the behavior of a priest he supervised.
A jury found the state liable for the behavior of Richard Carley, a former deputy director of operations in the Division of Criminal Justice who was charged by Barbara A. Davis with sexual harassment.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A bishop in the Roman Catholic Church has been indicted for failure to report suspected child abuse, the first time in the 25-year history of the church's sex abuse scandals that the leader of an American diocese has been held criminally liable for the behavior of a priest he supervised.
Therefore, as the law is currently written, the two vendors in this case couldn't be held liable for deceptive behavior.
They also worry authorities are holding doctors criminally liable for the behavior of their patients.
So if we hold ExxonMobil legally liable for such behavior, and the law is fairly applied, shouldn't anyone who deceives and casts doubt on what they know the science says be held to the same legal standard?
Today's lead editorial in the New York Times, titled "Interrogation for Profit," decries "one of the Bush administration's most blatant evasions of accountability in Iraq -- the outsourcing of war detainees' interrogation to mercenary private contractors" and calls on Congress to approve "measures to make war-zone contractors liable for criminal behavior".
