Citibank, SBM asked to pay compensation by apex court.
Byline: Dhananjay Mahapatra NEW DELHI: Mishandling of documents pertaining to an export consignment of 925 kg of red chillies and 1,110 kg of capsicum has proved too hot for Citi Bank and State Bank of Mysore (SBM), for the Supreme Court has asked them to pay a...

Proposed legislation could impact liability exposure.
Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced legislation--the Medical Device Safety Act of 2008---on June 26 that would overturn a Supreme Court decision granting medical device manufacturers some immunity from certain liability suits. "This bill reverses an unfortunate Supreme Court decision that denied victims any legal...

Anil Ambani-promoted RNRL wants government appeal dismissed.
Byline: Piyush Pandey MUMBAI: The Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL), in a response to the government appeal to intervene in the gas dispute with RIL, filed a reply in the Bombay High Court seeking that the government appeal be dismissed. Objecting to government's application,...

Microsoft told to pay tax on licence fee for software.
MUMBAI: Indian tax authorities have opened their windows to tax payments from Microsoft. The world's largest software company, which dominates the country's software products market, is liable to pay tax here on the licence fee charged to Indian users, an appellate authority has ruled. The accumulated tax liability for...

Hearing on death penalty today.
LUCKNOW: After seven postponements on the requests of the defence, the criminal appeal and confirmation of the death sentence in Manjunath case is slated for hearing on February 4 at the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court. On March 26, 2007, the then district sessions judge, Lakhimpur,...

ExxonMobil spills, scores.
The U.S. Supreme Court invoked the ire of 33,000 Alaskans who were hoping to score $75,000 each in belated compensation for the losses incurred by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. In a 5-3 decision, the highest court in the land ruled that the company...

Dr. ordered 30 mgs Dilaudid: RN questioned order resulting in change.
CASE ON POINT: Wall v. Hillside Hosp., 2008 TNCIV M2005-02529-COA-R-3 (01/31/2008)--TN ISSUE: Nurses have a responsibility not to follow doctors' orders when they know that the medication or dosage may be detrimental to and/or fatal to a patient. In this Tennessee case after a physician mistakenly ordered...

Human capital--the most critical asset: past efforts at the federal level have not succeeded in institutionalizing long-term change in the human capital function.
Since the comptroller general placed the management of human capital on the U.S. Government Accountability Office's list of high-risk programs in 1999, a series of legislative and policy initiatives have tried to recast the way federal agencies think about and perform the human capital function. Although many have been...

Different standards in med. mal. cases unconstitutional.
CASE ON POINT: Seisinger v. Siebel, 2008 AZ (06/17/2008) -AZ CASE FACTS: In August 2004, Laura Seisinger filed a complaint against Dr. Scott Siebel alleging that he committed medical malpractice when he administered a spinal epidural to her. Thereafter, Dr. Seisinger disclosed in discovery that his expert...

ITAT can allow amends in I-T return: SC.
Byline: Sanjay K Singh NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal is empowered to allow an assessee to rectify a mistake in his income-tax return within a stipulated time from its order. Overturning a Madras High Court order, the apex...