Compensation awards to victims of Friday’s Metrolink train crash could easily overwhelm a $200-million cap that Congress imposed 11 years ago on a railroad’s liability in any one accident. The limit, ...

In this Insight, Zaynah Mirza considers the case of CLS Civil Engineering Ltd v WJG Evans and Sons (a partnership) [2024] EWHC 194 (TCC) which concerned a number of issues including whether the terms ...

In October 2019, Rolls-Royce contracted with Topalsson to design, build, implement and maintain digital visualisation software which allowed Rolls-Royce’s prospective consumers to configure and ...

Looking for some certainty in an often-uncertain field, public companies are increasingly disclosing auditor agreements that place a monetary cap on any liabilities that may arise from accounting ...

“You would hope that there would not be more than $10 billion of damage, but understand it is for each episode,” the speaker added. A group of senators have introduced legislation that would raise the ...

The spill commission, in calling for raising the $75 million economic liability limit but neglected to offer a specific proposal, is punting the issue to Congress. “We do recommend a significant ...

A Senate panel looking into liability issues arising from the Gulf oil spill turned its attention to a liability cap that some lawmakers worry might be used by BP to get out of paying the full cost of ...

A compromise between Iowa’s trucking industry and trial lawyers would create new liability protection from lawsuits filed over accidents involving commercial vehicles. The Iowa House, on a 58-42 vote, ...

WASHINGTON — A top Obama administration lawyer Tuesday asked Congress to get rid of all federal liability caps that protect energy companies such as BP against huge damage payments to fishermen, hotel ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico at the site of BP's blown out Macondo well on April 21, 2010. The Obama administration is proposing raising the oil spill liability limit, one ...

Supreme Court on Tuesday said courts are not barred from determining govt's additional liability towards citizens in case of ...

Compensation awards to victims of last week’s Metrolink train crash could easily overwhelm a $200-million cap that Congress imposed 11 years ago on a railroad’s liability in any one accident. The ...