Questions tagged [liability]
Use this for questions where the award of damages, or its possibility, is involved.
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Can I allow use of a property while limiting exposure to liability?
I own a semi-rural property in Canada which I use as a seasonal residence; it's unoccupied for long periods. People in the surrounding community are accustomed to traversing the property ...
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In Ireland claims ( insurance) [on hold]
If the scenario is where a claimant/plaintiff is being forced that is - Boot the car and asks the claimant to pay fine for parking the car in a defendants premises
While registering the claim, Can ...
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If hit with a spamming/phishing scam, how should a company warn its customers? [on hold]
Should a company consider writing up a waiver of liability before warning the recipients of a spam/phishing attack executed with one of its employees' credentials? What legal ramifications are there ...
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Why would a company with a market cap over $100 million choose to be a non-limited, general partnership?
Why would such a significantly profitable company choose to have unlimited liability? What benefits would still be afforded by the non-limited, general partnership structure? United States especially.
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Advice about being secretly taped
I need to know if you can sue someone for pain and suffering after being secretly audio taped in North Carolina.
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In a disclaimer of liability, does the order of sentences matter?
Supposing that a "disclaimer of liability" is phrased in such a way that the meanings of sentences are independent of each other - would the order of presentation of the sentences have any impact on ...
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LLC liability for prior (sole proprietorship) product
Say that I start selling a digital product while operating as a sole proprietorship. I later go through the process to form an LLC, and then continue to sell the product under the name of my LLC.
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Can I sue the government because a minor on probation committed homicide?
My father was killed by a teenager last year in TN, USA. We are still in the one year statue of limitation for wrongful death civil suit. The suspect has been transferred to adult court and the ...
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Am I legally responsible for users misusing my service for cyberbullying? [closed]
Good evening from Germany,
I the CEO of a start-up that offers a social network where people can anonymously upload posts (only texts) that users within five miles can see and up/downvote. It is ...
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Can I write about a *copy* of a dead celebrity?
I'm writing a science fiction novel and I want to use Jim Morrison (lead singer for The Doors who died 47 years ago) as a minor character. Actually, it is a copy of Jim Morrison uploaded after his ...
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My bicycle was stolen and I feel like I'm entitled to some compensation
I recently moved into a brand new apartment complex (most flats are still empty). Over a bank holiday weekend it turns out my bicycle (which I recently purchased for around £400) was stolen.
The ...
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Do I face liability for publishing a ranked list of companies?
I want to create a website in which I will list various of companies in a niche area. I will write pros/cons and publish a ranking list based on my opinion. So my questions are:
Can I create such a ...
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Can someone collect damages without providing receipts?
This question could apply to any part of the United States, but particularly to California, which is unusually consumer friendly.
Suppose I am involved in minor car accident (basically a fender ...
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May I legally work in a restaurant with typhoid if the employer knows?
I contracted Typhoid while visiting family in Central America for a funeral. I work minimal wage at a restaurant/arcade preparing food, and cannot afford to miss work. My boss will not allow me paid ...
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Removing negligent care clause from service agreement
I'm already in an agreement with a dog walker/dog boarding service that takes care of walking my dogs and board them when I'm away and can't take them with me.
Recently I've been notified that the ...
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Is an agreement enforcable that makes parents liable for a child’s behavior at school?
Hypothetical facts
Alice is 17 (a legal minor).
Alice attends the 12th grade at Bob High School (BHS), a California public high school.
BHS loans Alice a laptop to do her school work.
As a condition ...
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Is Bank responsible for protecting me from fraud?
I applied for a part time job on Indeed to be a “Secret Shopper for Walmart”. I took the bait and was sent a check for 2k and given an assignment to buy iTune cards at two Walmart and do a customer ...
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Is it legal to eat or drink items before paying for them in Georgia, USA?
My wife, two year old daughter and I went to a clothing store in Georgia. My daughter was being fussy after she saw some candy and soda that she just could not wait. So, I gave her the candy and soda. ...
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Service provider states I terminated the agreement by moving to a location they do not service, am I liable?
I signed a 24 month agreement for internet service while living in Atlanta. A month or two into the contract, my wife formally accepted a contract for a position 800 miles away (expensive move). We ...
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what liabilities come with hosting a server?
what liabilities come with hosting a gaming server (minecraft like game) at home in germany, european union, assuming that no one hacks it?
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Is it allowed to include such Warranty Disclaimer in the Service Agreement?
Is it allowed to include a Warranty disclaimer in the SERVICE AGREEMENT as such:
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ...
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Is there a difference in a lawyer's liability for “passive” versus “active”negligence?
For instance, "passive" negligence might be, "I didn't do A (required by the law or the code of legal ethics) because I genuinely didn't know that A needed to be done" (even though I should have). "...
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When a person dies is his estate liable for income taxes on a IRA ( USA)?
Is the deceaseds' estate liable for USA income tax on an IRA ? Or is the IRA paid out to designated beneficiaries which then makes them liable for the taxes ? Thinking of a modest amount , well under ...
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Liability for neighbor injured on my property
My neighbor does odd jobs for me such as taking out the trash, cleaning out the gutters, etc. They fell off a ladder and required medical attention. Recently, they received a letter from their ...
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Who is responsible for posts on Internet forums, particularly in Russia?
Are users or is the site owner responsible for posts on the forum?
Could it be different:
with or without a license agreement available on the site?
with or without a registration?
My concern is ...
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Waiver of liability: can I be required to waive an institution from liability from its negligence?
A certain University in New Jersey is holding a conference and organising an afternoon of excursions and leisure activities. It requires that participants sign a waiver containing the clause (emphasis ...
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Must a natural spring be disclosed when buying a house?
I purchased a home last fall just to discover, come spring, that it was on a natural spring.
It turned out that the spring is water table dependent and as such was not present during the time of the ...
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Can I sue an app for enabling harassment?
Can I sue an app for emotional distress?
My soon-to-be ex-husband has been using a fake phone number app in order to impersonate:
my child's school
the coroner's office
the police officers who are ...
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Am I required to render medical aid when off-duty if I am a doctor?
My family is dragging me along to a politician's ball. I'm not a very big fan of this particular group of attendees, to put it mildly, and have recently been day-dreaming of one choking while I raid ...
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Indemnification clauses and liability regarding use of information?
I've seen a lot of clauses like this,
You will indemnify and hold Evil Corp, its directors, officers, employees, agents, consultant, contractors, partners, vendors and service providers (including,...
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Are business owners liable for harm inflicted by homeless spikes?
Businesses in cities install hazards, hard spikes or sharp bench dividers, to ward homeless from using flat surfaces near the business as a dry place to sleep. If a homeless person were to use this ...
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Is a fraudster liable for losses in this situation?
The usual rule of law is that a fraudster is liable for all losses/restitution, due to their fraud, whether or not reasonably foreseeable.
Suppose a fraudster's deception causes a person to take a ...
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Indemnification clause in effect, but indemnified party refuses to cooperate
Suppose a contract exists in which defendant D has indemnified party E. D and E currently dislike each other. Third-party plaintiff P, in a liability matter arising (indirectly) out of the contract, ...
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Our company shipped product to an address that the recipient just moved from
The recipient moved and didn't notify us. He moved 1 mile away. Our tracking number showed delivery to his former address. The person said he went back and the new tenants said they didn't have it. ...
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How does shareholders' limited liability work in practice?
Given that:
A shareholder in a limited company is not personally liable for any of
the debts of the company, other than for the amount already invested
in the company and for any unpaid amount ...
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Data breaches in an online store services company - is the client liable?
Consider a company like SquareSpace, which provides services to other businesses. These services include things like credit card processing. If Squarespace itself has a data breach and the credit ...
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Is a rental business liable if a rented product causes harm?
If a business rents out objects for use around the house (think things like ladders, tools, toys etc.) and someone hurts themselves using the rented item, is the rental business liable?
I feel this ...
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Are there doctrines of contract law that limit potentially open-ended liability?
Sometimes when you have a contract with another party, the exact dollar amount that you as a customer would owe is not firmly specified. Instead there may be a statement about what would be the charge,...
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Offering Non-Business Free WiFi - Legal Considerations?
Ontario, Canada.
I'd like to operate an open, free WiFi hotspot for public consumption, not associated with any business.
Per Wikipedia :
In Canadian law, unauthorized access is addressed the ...
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Liability of unknown possession and distribution of encrypted illegal files [duplicate]
Bitcoin transactions allow you to store encrypted data in them. It has been found that there is illegal data being stored in some transactions. Part of the system/ blockchain is everyone has a copy of ...
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Can I sell an extension that violates LinkedIn's TOS?
I am building a Chrome extension designed for users of LinkedIn. LinkedIn, however, appears to be very strict on the use of such extensions on its site. The TOS states that one should not use any tool ...
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What happens to the developer studio of a game that makes an exploit possible on a console?
Often with consoles to be able to softmod them, some legitimately acquired game is required that provides an exploit such that the whole console can be modded, possibly resulting in the owner ...
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In a group bill, can you be responsible to pay for something you didn't order?
If you go to a restaurant/pub/bar etc. with a group of people, and someone doesn't pay, is another member of the group legally responsible for covering his portion?
I'm asking because I went to a ...
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Why create an intellectual property holding company as a parent, subsidiary, or separate entity?
Most of the examples of intellectual property holding companies I've seen via web searches utilize a wholly owned subsidiary of a parent company to hold IP and then lease it back to the parent company ...
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Who's legally responsible for vet bill in pet injury, owner or pet sitter?
A friend agreed to pet-sit my dog, Taishi, while husband and I were away for 3 weeks. To compensate her for doing this, we told her she could live in our apartment and eat any food we had without ...
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Can we set up our company in a different country in order to protect our IT and assets from litigation?
I'm working with a startup in a country where laws are loose at best. After reviewing the privacy laws that bind us by doing business in this country, there seem to be an endless amount of ways that ...
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Malware and liability [duplicate]
What liability do I have if I make an opensource piece of malware (registered under MIT), and then someone takes it and uses it to infect hundreds of computers? Could I be taken to court for that? Or ...
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Hypothetical legal scenario: has this person admitted doing something illegal although he's innocent?
This is just a hypothetical question about law and justice.
Hypothetically, just as a scenario, imagine this: suppose for example that a drunken man has an online Facebook conversation with a friend, ...
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General bankruptcy inquiry in Germany
A person lives in Germany and owns a business which is in debt. They are afraid they will lose their child and be sent to "debt jail".
Is this a real possibility?
Is there any liability protection ...
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Blanket statement to avoid all liability
I am currently developing an app which facilitates an Assassin game in which players stalk and shoot their friends with water guns in order to win a monetary prize (as facilitated by whoever runs each ...
