Questions tagged [liability]
Use this for questions where the award of damages, or its possibility, is involved.
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Can I be prosecuted for a possibly illegal demolition done before I bought the property?
I've just found out that the property I'm buying had a small derelict house on it which the owner tore down a few months ago. He claims the building is below the 47m squared minimum under which a ...
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My bag falls off the overhead rack of a train onto the seat below. In case of damage or injury, who is liable and what to do?
In most long-distance trains, notably in Europe, there are big racks for the larger bags and a shelf above the seats that runs the entire length of the car for smaller ones. The latter is also used ...
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Contractor drops off materials to house without notification
This is sort of along similar lines to Contractor does work on the wrong house, and was prompted by me reading that question.
At the beginning of the year I approached a company to do some work on my ...
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Contractor does work on the wrong house
I saw a post online where someone (in the UK) is claiming they accidentally went to the wrong house to replace windows and the homeowner let them in, let them perform all the work, and then thanked ...
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Relation between transport security investigation and police investigation
The MAIB (the maritime transport safety investigation board of the UK) has recently published a safety bulletin about liferafts that weren't properly serviced by a service station.
The full report is ...
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If you are a state employee, what responsibility does your employer have to provide legal council when you are acting on its behalf?
This question came up during public records training at a public organization in Washington state, but I am interested in the general case. That said, I've provided the specific hypothetical about ...
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Typo in disclaimer - worst case scenario
I've noticed a typo on an investment company's disclaimer in a brochure, to the effect:
This company and its research affiliate June continue to have such
dealings and June also have other ongoing ...
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In France, can the insurance not apply if my motorcycle has racing parts?
I have a motorcycle in France that is insured. For clarification, I do ride on road and not on a circuit.
Doing some maintenance, I changed the air filter to a racing one that says to increase air ...
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Artist liability for illegal art?
Have any graffiti artists, in the process of asserting their copyright claim in court over illegally placed works of art, and in doing to by proving themselves to the the creator of the works, been ...
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Purchased merchandise stolen from customer before taken off retailer’s premises
Bob purchases an item from ACME stores Ltd but it was stolen from him before he left the store. Bob would like to request a replacement or refund. Whose loss is this? Whose property was stolen (...
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is uncensorship in japanese porn illegal
According to some laws in japan censorship is a must for adult films but why does uncensored porn in JAPANESE ADULT VIDEOS ,PORNHUB,ETC exist is that legal? of not what charges they could be facing?
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Can I sue a restaurant that knowingly served me a meat patty instead of a vegetarian [duplicate]
I ordered a pick up order from a restaurant that included a veggie burger. Upon eating it I noticed that it had a weird taste to it and I wasn’t a fan.
My boyfriend and roommate noticed that it looked ...
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Legal liability of websites for text produced by chat bots such as ChatGPT
To what extent is a website hosted in the US legally liable for the output of an AI chat bot?
For example, if ChatGPT produced the phrase:
kill yourself
and OpenAI distributed this phrase to me over ...
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Is the purchaser of a company responsible for guarantees made by the seller of the company, if it is Not specified in the contract of sale?
If company A sold its business to company B, which company, A or B is responsible for "service guarantees" made by company A in the event the contract of sale does not address this matter? ...
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To what extent does financial interest in vicarious liability in copyright law extend?
I've just learned about vicarious liability. It appears that it means that if you have a right to stop a copyright infringement and you're directly profiting from the fact that the infringement is ...
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Liabilities with restoring a stuck-down video from archive?
In this [movies.meta.se] question: What if a question's embedded video clip is struck down for copyright violation?, I discuss a potential policy issue for that exchange. In the case I list, there is ...
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Is there liablility if Alice startles Bob and Bob damages something?
The other day I saw a random clip on YouTube, where Alice sneaks up to Bob, who is vacuuming, and scares Bob. Bob gets startled and swings the vacuum into (Bob's own) expensive television, breaking ...
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How would one protect one self from a suit while skiing?
I am skiing and cause unintentional injury to another slope patron/client.
How would I protect myself from being sued?
Is there insurance if sued that could protect my assets if found negligent and ...
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Liability of products that are inherently risky (e.g. skateboard)
How do manufacturers of products that necessarily imply risk deal with liability?
Are they only liable if the product malfunctions in an unexpected and unpredictable way (e.g., the board breaks)?
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Should my hosting service return part of my annual fee if my site was hacked? [closed]
I’m an artist, and I have a website on the artist hosting service, Artspan.com. Unfortunately, recently their hosted websites were hacked and some of us lost all our uploaded images. They have said ...
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If you let a thief into the building, are you liable?
In a building with gated entry, if a resident lets a stranger into the building, and he turns out to be a thief, would the resident who let him in be liable for the damages?
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What does section 5 of Creative Commons 4.0 means?
I am in no way a lawyer, and I am having trouble decoding this part of the creative commons license :
Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.
Unless otherwise separately ...
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Do cats have a "right to roam" in the UK?
I've seen numerous sources, including the RSPCA, making claims along the lines that cats in the UK have a "right to roam", are "free spirits", and therefore that cat owners cannot ...
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Liability for releasing AI into the "wild"?
Lets say Bob writes an AI that has the ability to replicate, learn and has a predisposition towards self preservation. As the AI gets smarter, it realizes that it needs to clone itself in order to ...
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broker cancelled life insurance policy without authorization [closed]
Back in 2018 we had a life insurance policy that was set up in 2007, we were selling our house and buying another, our broker wanted to make sure we were covered as we were taking on a bigger debt. ...
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Can / How would a lease (contract) require an injured visitor to hold the renter's insurance liable?
Assume Jane visits Bob (Renter). Mike is the Florida landlord.
Jane slips and falls on the Mike's rental property, Can Mike's attorney construct lease so that Bob is required to have some sort of ...
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Liability of a drug addict and alcoholic having a accident in a rented car
Let's say In the United States there is a person with a drug and alcohol problem. The person goes to rent a truck from Home Depot for a few days. The person then gets involved in a drunk driving ...
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How does the Florida homestead exemption apply to a house on .51 acres?
If my Florida primary residence is on a .51 acre lot in a municipality and I get sued, can the creditor take my house because I am over the .5 acre limit?
I understand that I would keep .5/.51 = 98% ...
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What fiduciary responsibilities do real estate agents have for a buyer?
As the title states, What fiduciary responsibilities do real estate agents have for a buyer?
As a example to stir the thought process. Real estate agents have an inherit benefit of a buyer paying a ...
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What liability would be incurred by both parties in the incident of a bicycle and footpath walker collision?
I live in a city in the UK that has an extensive network of foot/cycle paths, and make use of these paths for exercise by cycling on them. I share these paths with pedestrians and other cyclists, ...
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Would someone providing "faulty" suicide advice be liable for a survivor's damages?
Let's say Bob publishes an analysis of suicide methods meant to assist those so inclined. Alice takes Bob at his authoritative word and follows his advice to the letter regarding the method he deems ...
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Are customer dissatisfaction and loss of trust enough reasons to terminate a relationship without obligations?
A Buyer signed an instalment agreement. The Seller prematurely terminated the agreement due to their own negligence.
The Seller offered the Buyer another instalment agreement however, the terms are ...
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Can Bob, as the client, share any information about his project in any way he wants?
Bob hires vendor A and vendor B independently to work on a project for Bob. The two vendors are not partners, they work independently and do not communicate with each other although they are aware of ...
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The legal liability of providing something free vs paid
Bob feels charitable on one fine Sunday morning. He made 50 burgers and wanted to give them free.
A few independent examples:
Bob distributes the burgers on the street to strangers
Bob places the ...
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Can one be liable to pay an agreed sum if they break a promise?
Bob wants Alice to share a computer file with him. This could be a photo, a video/audio recording etc. — anything that only Alice has and that Bob craves a copy of. The copyright ownership shouldn't ...
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Are dropservice suppliers liable for any damages to customers?
I wanted to ask a question about the dropservice business model.
We have 3 figures, the customer, the supplier and us. Dropservice is a business model in which we can have services delivered to our ...
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What warranty would gratis software have?
Most, if not all, free and open-source software (FOSS) licenses have a liability/warranty disclaimer. The GPL's disclaimer is especially long:
Disclaimer of Warranty.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE ...
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Is an LLC with no assets effectively impervious to lawsuits?
For example, a millionaire forms an LLC to sell lemonade on the sidewalk and they put a job posting in the local newspaper where they specified that only a person of a particular ethnicity, marital ...
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What entity is legally obliged to compensate for damage accidentally inflicted at a non-belligerent state territory during military conflict?
The question is based on recent events:
Yesterday (15th Nov 2022) a supposedly stray missile hit Polish
territory, causing loss of life (2 fatalities) and property damage.
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What legal penalties may Twitter face as a result of the Eli Lilly fake tweet?
Twitter recently made it possible to get a verification check added to an account by just paying 8 dollars, causing a rash of fake 'verified' accounts. One of these accounts was for Eli Lilly, a ...
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Civil liability and replacement values
Meet Bob. Bob's car was destroyed by Alice, thus besides other potential consequences, rendering Alice civilly liable for the value of the car.
Suppose that the car was bought on a temporary, time-...
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Personal Liability Renters Insurance
My renters insurance has section described as Personal Liability(Bodily Injury and Property Damage).
My question is, is this liability for this dwelling only.
If I am sued for bodily injury from auto ...
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NDA without a defined maximum liability amount
I would like to ask if it is normal (standard situation) for an NDA to not define the maximum liability amount. Someone can hack my computer or data storage and I inadvertently access confidential ...
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Assaulted by store employee: who is liable?
Meet Bob. Bob was egregiously assaulted by a stores security guard who damages his phone and vehicle. One of the other employees grabs his phone out of his hand on retribution for attempting to ...
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Is anyone who develops websites or webapps for clients legally responsible for what they are creating and all the gdpr obligations?
Suppose the case of a european (italian) web developer who, at the request of a client, creates a web platform for him from scratch (also with database, saving user’s data, ecc.). When putting the ...
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Karen sues a workshop for damages as she was trespassing and disregarding mandatory safety gear. Does she have a case?
Let's paint the scene: We work in the back of a metalworking workshop in Austin Texas. Huge machines make lots of noise, at times there are steel panels on the floor with access holes to access the ...
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Why doesn't law take into account probability?
My question is based on my layman understanding, I'm not in law
When I think of "[damages]"* I think of "what is the expected liability from an interaction," as opposed to "...
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Event waiver needed?
A relative has an event based business (LLC). So far, events for her group have all taken place in restaurants in the city where she resides. Our question relates to liability and need for a waiver, ...
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Can you be convicted of a crime when you could not avoid doing so because of a bug in a state-owned mobile app?
Oregon offers electronic licenses and tags for hunting and fishing; the problem is that the app does not work reliably offline, despite advertising this feature. (It's very common to not have an ...
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Liability for the honest but mistaken actions of others
Imagine two completely unrelated businesses, A and B, both have toll free phone numbers (so both incur cost for a call to their phone number) but the numbers are close enough for wrong dialling to ...
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