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Basic principles of nuclear liability legislation are discussed including absolute and limited liability and the role of the Sovereign State in idemnifying the operator for damage in excess of limited liability. European counrties realised the need for un...

A team of lawyers and engineers has analyzed the operation of strict consumer product liability in the trial setting. The thrust was to highlight the functioning of strict liability in contrast to both negligence and absolute liability. Despite the fundam...

The later 1972 "Liability Treaty" 18 imposes "absolute liability" upon a launching State "for damage caused by its space object on the surface ...

interpretation of terms such as "absolute liability" and "minimize risk" that exist in documents like the. Charter of the United Nations, ...

This Act which entered into force on 16th June 1972 adopted the essential principles laid down in the Paris Convention. These include in particular absolute liability of the operator, its limitation in amount and in time. (Atomindex citation 18:003010)

...resulting in compensable injury or loss subject to the exclusions set forth at § 536.76. Strict or absolute liability and similar theories are not grounds for liability under this subpart. (2) Tort claims arising out of noncombat activities. Claims...

... scheduling required to effect joint military/commercial ... of strict or absolute liability or otherwise. ... will enter a formal Operating Agreement with such ...

The parameters of vicarious liability of corporations for the conduct of their employees, especially in the context of provisions that criminalise breaches of regulatory provisions, are complex. The decision of Bell J in ABC Developmental Learning Centres Pty Ltd v Wallace [2006] VSC 171 raises starkly the potential unfairness of an approach which converts criminal ...

Policy implications of the Price-Anderson Act as it relates to nuclear power plants are discussed. Features of the Act include: the requirement that licensees carry the maximum amount of insurance available; the AEC indemnity that closes the gap, at least in part, between aggregate liability and the amount of insurance provided; waiver of defenses provisions, ...

The history of the physician's legal duties has been traced from the first recorded writings of the Babylonian era to the present day. There has been a transition from the days of absolute liability to the modern idea of liability based on culpability. The doctrine of stare decisis developed in early English law forms the very backbone ...

Portugal is a Contracting Party of the Paris Convention which establishes a special system of liability for the operator of nuclear installations in Contracting States: absolute liability and its limitation in amount and in time. The Brussels Supplementar...

...WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR...evidence relied upon in support of the request...the reasons listed in support of the request. If...shall be an absolute defense to the liability of the special fund. This defense is an affirmative...

The history of the physician's legal duties has been traced from the first recorded writings of the Babylonian era to the present day. There has been a transition from the days of absolute liability to the modern idea of liability based on culpability. The doctrine of stare decisis developed in early English law forms the very backbone ...

Legal liability for risk-generating technological activities is evaluated in view of requirements that are necessary for peaceful human coexistence and progress in order to show possibilities for improvement. The requirements imply, given that political decision making about the activities proceeds on the basis of majority rule, that legal liability should ...

A large increase in medical products liability litigation during the past 40 years has resulted in a flood of litigation against drug and device manufacturers. The medical technology and chemical industries are prime targets for products liability litigation. Physicians and other health care providers are willing to accept a reasonable degree of risk ...

The so-called Paris Convention was concluded among 17 European countries and is in force since 1968. It provides for a special third party liability system for nuclear operators, namely, the operator's absolute liability which is limited in amount. The Br...

Absolute liability; nonthreshold theory in radiological protection; permissible levels; radioinduced diseases; diagnostic and other problems; statistical approach; and the importance of the problem are discussed. Education is stressed as the factor that alone can contribute to the solution of the overall problem of acceptance of the nuclear ...

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The German insurance business is presently disturbed at the risk to be taken and the applications to be made made of atomic energy, in offering the necessary insurance protection. It is shown that, from the problematics of nuclear ance with the late-injury danger entering in, it si unreasonpremium tructure of which is still undergoing alteration, and for which there is ...

...apply to a claim arising incident to noncombat activities. (j) Claims based on strict or absolute liability and similar theories. (k) Claims payable under subparts D or J of this part, or under AR 27-20, chapter 11. (l) Claims...