ability to sue

The ability to sue insurers was important to keep them in line, he decided.

If you have a reaction to the vaccine your ability to sue may be limited by law.

The bill gives patients new rights, including the ability to sue health plans for denying care.

Republicans want to limit patients' ability to sue their health providers.

And because the abuse dated back so far, victims were also limited in their ability to sue.

But he said companies should not be permitted to pressure employees into signing away their ability to sue.

But they won't, as that'd hinder their ability to sue others over software patents.

The officials also seek to restrict the cable operators' ability to sue municipalities.

Instead, it merely gives the other party the ability to sue for breach of contract if such an assignment is made.

Boeing and Swissair also retain the ability to sue others for any money they may pay to passengers.

The bill would also eliminate the state's ability to sue polluters on behalf of Arizona citizens.

By cutting off the donor's ability to sue, the reasoning went, the gift was final and deductible.

Without the ability to sue for pain and suffering, he said, an injured person is reduced to the "state of a chattel."

Democrats counter that the patients' ability to sue is critical to making health maintenance organizations accountable for their decisions.

Some consumer groups say they already know one thing that helps hold down rates: no-fault insurance, which limits a person's ability to sue.

"The reality is that there are frivolous suits, but if you take away the prisoners' ability to sue, they will have no place to go.

And they argue that restricting the ability to sue is wrong because it will ease pressure on the city to rectify dangerous problems.

The law covers drivers who have accepted limits on their ability to sue after an accident, under the state's no-fault insurance system.

This amendment also allowed citizens the ability to sue polluters or government agencies for failure to abide by the act.

If successful, such a defense not only wins the case at hand but destroys the patent troll's underlying ability to sue.

The larger reduction went to policyholders who agreed to voluntarily limit their ability to sue for pain and suffering from accidents.

Moreover, the ability to sue for payoffs far exceeding injury victims' medical bills and lost wages encourages fraud.

This decision deals primarily with the civil rights of illegitimate children, specifically in regards to their ability to sue on a deceased parent's behalf.

In response to concerns expressed by some doctors, the sponsors of the bill limited the patient's ability to sue a "treating physician" in federal court.

The Fed chairman said Congress should avoid increasing investors' ability to sue companies that manipulate their books to inflate share prices.