We have proposed this to the board, but it rejected us, claiming that such a renovation would raise "liability issues" for the building.
To raise liability coverage for injuries to another car's occupants to, say, $300,000, from the $50,000 minimum, Atlantic Mutual adds $402 and Erie $219.
State Farm, which insures 37 million cars, is holding out against raising liability rates for drivers of bigger vehicles, arguing that while they indeed cause more damage in crashes, they are involved in fewer accidents over all.
Legal breaches raise liability issues for VLN organisers, while affecting the design of the VLN, and raise questions of business and academic reputation and value.
Such long-term but foreseeable impacts raise liability and compensation issues, including appropriate discount rates (if any) on future costs and benefits, which, as value-laden choices, also need to be discussed by stakeholder groups.
This raises the liabilities of pension funds (since it takes more money to deliver the same pension).
There's a bill afoot in the Senate to raise the liability limit to $10 billion, but Republicans have blocked it twice, arguing that liability limits that high will push little mom-and-pop offshore drilling platforms and supertanker operations out of the business and reduce competition.
There are some reforms only Congress can make, like raising the liability limits for spills.
Republicans in Congress have blocked any new rules for offshore drilling and new spending for regulation and have not acted on proposals to raise the liability cap.
Members of the Drill, Baby, Drill Party have blocked efforts to raise the liability limits for oil spills, and have yet to muster a single sponsor for climate legislation.
