A historic New York City hotel has been found to contains asbestos products, and its new owner has been ordered to remove the dangerous substance from the building. According to NY Daily News, Joseph Chetrit has been ordered to clear any asbestos out of the shaft space in the historic Chelsea Hotel. The new owner [...]
Cesarean section births are no safer for premature babies than a vaginal delivery and might even increase the risk of respiratory problems and other complications such as cerebral palsy, according to a new study of c-section births that is gaining national attention. The study was conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities and [...]
You’ve made up your mind to sell some or all of the payments from your structured settlement. Maybe you need the cash to help cover a home purchase or to pay off medical bills. Or perhaps there’s an investment opportunity you wish to pursue. Whatever the reason – you need money now. Before you sign [...]
Recently resolved bankruptcy court litigation involving asbestos-product maker W.R.Grace & Co. will likely benefit the thousands of sick individuals who have brought mesothelioma lawsuits against the company. According to The Daily Inter Lake, W.R. Grace recently ended bankruptcy court litigation that has dragged on since 2001 and agreed to a $19.5 million that will fund [...]
The basic definition of an annuity describes a financial instrument or arrangement that provides regular, periodic payments. In the U.S., an annuity contract is often used to create a guaranteed income stream over a fixed period of time. Annuity payments may be made until a certain date or they may extend until the death of [...]
Bank of America Class Action Lawsuit: Does globalization erode the nation state’s capacity to act? Are nation states forced to converge in their policies even if these should not correspond to the democratically expressed will of their electorates? How does government action change under conditions of globalization? Questions like these have featured highly not only [...]
Bank of America Class Action Lawsuit News – 2/1/2012 : Banks have become essential to the economic life of every modern society. A successful banking system has not only become crucial for the functioning of every business, it has also become central to the daily routine of most people. While the possession and use of [...]
Bank of America Lawsuit News- 2/1/2012: On the one hand, regulatory policy produces few costs—compared to distributive policy and state-spending programmes—as the production of laws and rules is generally not very expensive. Similarly, monitoring compliance with these rules also requires little financial commitment, especially since these costs can often be imposed onto the regulated sector [...]
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Bank of America Lawsuit News- 2/7/2012 : The questions at stake are of central importance to the academic disciplines of comparative political science and comparative public policy, but they also touch the heart of modern democratic statehood as it has developed since the Second World War. The territorially based, democratically legitimated state that took on [...]