Institutions, liability

American Enterprise Institute, Liability Project, available at http //www.aei.org/ research/projectID.23/project.asp (quote). See Henry N. Butler Larry E. Ribstein, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle (2006) Charles Fried David Rosenberg, Making Tort Law (2003) Michael S. Greve, Harm-Less Lawsuits (2005). 

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George Eads and Peter Reuter, Designating Safer Products Gorporate Responses to Product Liability Law and Regulation, The Rand Corporation Institute for Civil justice, Santa Monica, CA, 1983. 

Subsidies represent an often hidden financial benefit that is given to particular energy sources by government institutions in the form of tax credits, research and development (R rD) funding, limits on liability for certain kinds of accidents, military spending to protect Middle East oil supply lines, below-market leasing fees for use of public lands, and other... 

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Policy makers, practitioners, and scholars from a variety of disciplines have recently embraced a new approach to risk reduction in health care—a "systems approach"—without proposing any specific reforms of medical liability law. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) placed its imprimatur on this approach in its recent reports (Kohn et al., 2000 IOM, 2001). In its simplest form, a systems approach to risk reduction in health care posits that an injury to a patient is often the manifestation of a latent error in the system of providing care. In other words, a medical mishap is the proverbial "accident waiting to happen" because the injury-preventing tools currently deployed, including medical liability law, are aimed at finding the individuals at fault rather than the systemic causes of error. Coexistence of a systems approach to error reduction and medical liability law as a conceptual framework for policy makers implies that the latter is likely to evolve in an incremental fashion as the former makes more visible different aspects of the medical error problem. 

Peter Lacouture, Associate Director, Clinical Research, The Purdue Frederick Company, Norwalk, Connecticut Dr. Fumio Matsumura, Associate Director, Toxic Substances Program, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of California, Davis, California Dr. Frederick Oehme, Director, Comparative Toxicology Laboratories, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas and Dr. Jack Radomski, Private Consultant, Jonesport, Maine. These experts collectively have knowledge of heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide s physical and chemical properties, toxicokinetics, key health end points, mechanisms of action, human and animal exposure, and quantification of risk to humans. All reviewers were selected in conformity with the conditions for peer review specified in Section 104(i)(13) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended. 

This observation is however not restricted to supposedly conservative factory owners, who at best fear liability problems or financial risks. It applies to workers and technicians alike, to purchasing department and management, to associations and scientific branch institutes as well as to sub-contractors of machinery, components and anxiliary eqnipment, in which the chemicals are nsed. This conservative stance applies not only with regard to enviromnent and health-related iimovation, bnt also to innovation in general and it is amplified (and also repeatedly npset) by the stress of globalisation and social uncertainty. 

Should a study subject suffer any deterioration in health or well-being caused by participation in a study, the sponsors of the clinical research must provide appropriate compensation without regard to the question of legal liability. A statement to that effect should be present in the protocol. Frequently, the insurance policy of the sponsor includes the pharmaceutical company, clinical investigators and the institution where the clinical study is being undertaken. 

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The cost information does not include excavation or administrative costs incurred by FEMP (e.g., decommissioning, regulatory, institutional oversight, and future liability costs) (D13569N,... 

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