Civil Remedies

This is FindLaw’s collection of Civil Remedies articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. A civil remedy refers to the remedy that a party has to pay to the victim of a wrong he commits. A civil remedy is generally separate form a criminal remedy, although in certain situations the civil and criminal remedy may be related. Civil remedies require the cooperation of the victim and are voluntary. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Buck Surveys Economic Assumptions

Buck Consultants, Inc. has released its most recent survey on defined benefit plan actuarial assumptions as to funding interest rates, salary increase rates and actuarial cost methods. Covering the 1997 plan year, the survey dealt with a ...
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Buyers’ Failure to Prove Diminution in Value of Property Permits Sellers and Realtors to Recover Attorneys Fees

On August 28, 1996, the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District (covering the greater Sacramento metropolitan area) handed down its opinion in Childers v. Edwards, which is a significant decision concerning residential real ...
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Buying and Selling a Home in Florida

Searching for a home can be really exciting but it can also be very stressful. Having an idea of what you can afford and what you are looking for can eliminate some of the stress associated with searching for a home. Consider the following: These ...
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Buying Hotel Notes as a Strategy for Growth

In an era in which banks and other lending institutions holding mortgages and deeds of trust on hotels experience loan defaults, an opportunistic hotel investor or operator can successfully acquire the debt -- and ultimately the underlying ...
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Buying the Right of Redemption: A Better Way to Acquire Property?

Following a judicial foreclosure in California, the judgment debtor or its successor in interest ("Redeemer") has a right of redemption, which allows it to redeem foreclosed real property from whomever purchased it at the foreclosure sale ...
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California Legislature Eliminates “Disgorgement Provisions” In Proposed Amendments to B&PC 17200

The California State Assembly has approved further amendments to Senate Bill 122 ("SB 122") to reform California Business and Professions Code section 17200, California's unfair competition law ("UCL"), which prohibits unlawful, unfair, or ...
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Car Seat Heater Burn Injury Cases

Car seat heaters are commonplace but these very heaters that offer comfort to many of us, are often the cause of severe, permanent burn injuries to paraplegics, quadriplegics or others that have lower body sensory deficits. Many of the electric car ...
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Civil Procedure Issues in Virginia

. Amends Virginia's additur statute. Additur is a means by which a trial court can increase a jury's award to a plaintiff when the verdict is deemed by the court to be too low. Earlier this year the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the additur ...
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Class Action Wars: Where The Big Fish Feed

Lost in the media spotlight on demands by plaintiffs' lawyers seeking $52 million in fees in the $1.2 billion Hepatitis-C class action settlement is an unrelated and seemingly harmless decision involving an extra-judicial settlement offer made by ...
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Closing Costs: Unreal Estate?

As the real estate market has heated up in many areas of the country to swift and unprecedented rates of turnover, and buyers and sellers float around on pink clouds of points and title transfers, a deadly villain lurking in the fine print is ...
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