White House aides drafting the memo are focusing on the damage cap issue, the two officials said, as well as the legislation's language setting time limits on some suits and provisions on joint liability.
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SB 1452 would remove joint liability and replace it with proportionate liability, in which polluting businesses and municipalities would be held liable only for the actual costs of the pollution they are found to have caused.
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It concluded that a variety of factors including difficulties in reaching the target market, the high risk profile of clients, their general distaste for the joint liability requirement, and high overhead costs made solidarity lending unviable without subsidies.
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The option memo being prepared for Clinton focuses on the following trouble spots : proposed caps on punitive damages; joint liability, and a statue of repose, according two White House officials who asked not to be identified by name.
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Until Monday, the bill also included language that would have made it retroactive to 1987, as well as a specific statement that it was the Legislature's intent a decade ago not to apply joint liability in personal injury cases.
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Joint Liability Group is a group of 4-10 people of same village / locality of homogenous nature and of same Socio Economic Background who mutually come together to form a group for the purpose of availing loan from a bank without any collateral.
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The parent entities of the Areva group share a joint liability with that subsidiary for the period after its acquisition . " " A few months before the cartel ended, Alstom sold the unit involved to Areva, which knew nothing of the cartel.
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Joint liability _ under attack in Senate Bills 1450 and 1452 _ is the legal concept that a person or industry or city could be held liable for all damages in a personal injury suit, even if only partially responsible for the damage.
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But Yunus has always rejected this concept, arguing that whatever moral responsibility may pertain among group members, there is no formal or legal & form of joint liability, i . e . group members are not responsible to pay on behalf of a defaulting member .
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Rockefeller, in a meeting with Bloomberg editors and reporters, suggested the key to a compromise lay in two specific areas : caps on punitive damages and provisions dealing with joint liability, which holds that any of the parties that contributed to an injury are potentially liable for all damages.
