All these effects work against the viability of health care provider insurance risk assumption.

Risk Assumption.

The Hague Rules 'boundaries' of liability encouraged less costly schemes of risk assumption.

Under the new risk assumptions, dioxin is 10,000 times more likely to cause cancer than PCB's, or polychlorinated biphenyls, at the same level of exposure, one agency official said.

The purpose of the rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is to protect those who are especially susceptible to health problems associated with cotton dust and to check the accuracy of the risk assumptions underlying the agency's removal of a longstanding rule limiting workplace exposure to cotton dust.