The judge found the Sony units liable for distributing the infringing songs.
Moreover, the jury also found a top manager at Bank of America's Countrywide Financial unit liable, pinning some — if not all — of the responsibility for the bad acts on an individual.
"If the tenant does not maintain this insurance," Mr. Debbas said, "the unit owner would potentially be liable for any personal-injury claims of the tenant or its guests, as well as property damage to the unit or other units in the building stemming from an act of the tenant".
Mr. Batcheler noted that the ruling potentially makes individual unit holders "jointly and severally" liable for damages.
If the plaintiff prevails, it is conceivable that the unit owners may be held liable for any amount exceeding the $2 million in coverage.
A Arthur I. Weinstein, a Manhattan lawyer who is the vice president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, said that a child of a deceased unit owner generally is not liable for unpaid common charges.
A: Since your daughter could have stayed in the unit until Feb. 15, she was liable for the rent up until that time, unless the landlord re-rented the unit, as he did, before then.
The ruling basically holds that individual condominium unit owners can be held personally liable for all or part of the damages awarded to people injured as a result of defects in common areas of a building.
The judge, Susan Illston of Federal District Court in San Francisco, said Nigerians suing the company presented enough evidence to proceed to trial on claims ChevronTexaco is liable for its Nigerian unit's handling of incidents at the oil project.
India's Supreme Court has deferred hearing of a defamation case against the local unit of Google on whether it's liable for offensive comments posted by a user on Blogspot.com.
If Apple had failed to settle with Cisco and subsequently lost the battle in court, it could have been liable for financial penalties for each unit that it sold.
