In a recent report, Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care Learningg from System Demonstrations, the IOM recommends that DHHS implement eight to ten ICT demonstrations (along with demonstrations in chronic care, primary care, state health insurance coverage, and state liability) to serve as building blocks for health system change.
Those included things like sick pay for state workers, as well as the state's liability for future pension payments, which was converted to debt in 1997 in a controversial $2.8 billion bond issue that treasury officials insist will save billions in the long run.
Through a series of rulings from 2011 to 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court exempted generic drug makers from state-law liability for both design-defect based damages and for inadequate or fraudulent labeling.
That doctrine shields state officials from liability for civil rights violations so long as their conduct did not violate "clearly established" law.
Coronato's office first secured a conviction under the state's strict liability for drug-induced deaths statute soon after his 2013 appointment, according to Della Fave.
The state of Illinois faces an unfunded pension liability for state and local workers of some $100 billion but has failed to rein in the ballooning costs.
Bills in two states would eliminate liability for drivers who run into protesters — as long as it's "accidental".
Soaring pension obligations resulting from contracts won by politically influential public employees' unions have become a financial liability for state and many local governments.
On the whole, that person noted, those operatives and officials had relatively little experience in state government, a potential liability for the new governor.
Joshua D. Rauh, an associate professor of finance at Northwestern University, and Robert Novy-Marx, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Rochester, calculated that the true unfunded liability for state and local pension plans is roughly $3.5 trillion.
