Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan Law 531 Charles Cook January 24, 2011 Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan For organizations to avoid detrimental situations that can create excessive loss for the business, it is imperative for them to Recognize and minimize the risks associated with torts. According to Henery Cheeseman, 2010, “Tort law imposes a duty on persons and business agents not to intentionally or negligently injure others in society”(Cheeseman
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Enterprise Risk Management Lori Abbott Law 531 September 24, 2012 Charles Burr Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the latest name for a risk management approach to business risks. Forerunners of this term include corporate risk management, business risk management, strategic risk management, integrated risk management, and holistic risk management (D'Arcy, 2001). Implementing the techniques of ERM will allow businesses to manage any potential tort issues
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Product Liability Legal Issues LaTanya Powers LAW 531 September 17, 2012 Mike Kelley Introduction Have you been injured due to a defective product? Has the product that you just purchased failed to have the proper warning label? Better yet, has the design or the manufactured parts of the product somehow become defective? These questions are just some of the legal issues that will be presented within this paper. In addition, the legal principles
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CORPORATE COMPLIANCE PLAN Individual Assignment: Corporate Compliance Plan LAW/531 YOUR NAME(S) DATE NAME OF PROFESSOR Corporate Compliance Plan DATE Memo to: Riordan Officers and Directors From: YOUR NAME Re: Managing legal liability This memo implements enterprise risk management such as prevention and management strategies for Riordan officers and directors (O/D) to implement in areas of legal risk based on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s
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Business Regulation and Essential Risk Management Lamont Clark, Cristina Mancha, Bobby Jo Sonon, Gwendolyn Wilson, Arnie Zhang, Business Law/531 22 April 2012 John Fossum Business Regulation and Essential Risk Management Common law placed the risk of loss to goods on the party who held title to the goods. Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) rejects this notion and adopts concise rules for risk of loss that are not tied to title. It also gives the parties to a
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Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan Environmental Regulation is perhaps the most stringent area of government’s regulation in business. The government imposes great technology investment demands on the industry for regulatory compliance. One single act of irresponsibility can cost businesses greatly or be forced to close (Business Regulation Simulation, 2009). It is important to identify, manage, and correct torts and regulatory risks for Alumina, Inc. so legal issues
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Paper LAW/531 ERM Paper The business regulation simulation presented involves Alumina Inc., a United States based aluminum manufacturing corporation located on the fringes of Lake Dira. Alumina was discovered to be in violation of environmental discharge norms following a routine EPA compliance evaluation inspection five years ago. The company subsequently corrected this violation and has since enjoyed a good overall environmental compliance record. This paper will identify potential tort risks
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Alumina and BP Introduction Running a business does not come without the existence of liability risk and legal issues. The question posed is what are the liability risks that could lead to legal issues and how will such issues be handled. When legal issues are present in the business sector due to liability issues, more likely than not, others are affected both directly and indirectly by the situation. How the situations are resolved depends upon those involved and the complaint. BP and Alumina
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Running Head: Business Simulation Business Regulation Simulation LaToya Brown Law 531 Gale Francis July 19, 2010 Alumina is a $ 4 billion aluminum maker. Based in the United States; Alumina operates in eight countries around the world, with the U.S. accounting for 70% of its sales. Alumina has business interests in automotive components, bauxite mining, aluminum refining, and aluminum smelting. Alumina falls under the jurisdiction of region 6 with the
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Enterprise Risk Management William Briggs, D. Scott Forman, Benecia Richardson LAW/531 July 16, 2012 Sonja Dickens, Esquire Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise risk management may be defined as “people, systems, and processes working together across the organisation to systematically think about managing a wide range of risks that could impede achieving organisational objectives/opportunity” (Harb. 2008, slide 4). The student writers were asked
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