Experts at the Institute of Medicine estimate that almost 98,000 people die each year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That’s more than the number that die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. A key theme that emerges in these cases is that legitimate liability concerns discourage prompt reporting of errors.
Mediation allows parties to make own decisions
By Judith B. Chandler-Huse, Ed.D.
GUEST COLUMNIST
Mediation is a modern practice with an ancient heritage. The great value of mediation is that parties are empowered to make decisions about their own futures, rather than, as one Family Court judge says, “having a stranger in a black robe” tell them what to do.
USA
October 30 2008
More than 10,000 domain name complaints have been handled by the National Arbitration Forum (“NAF”) since 1999 under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”). NAF is an international provider of alternative dispute resolution services approved by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”). Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, NAF can deal quickly, and inexpensively relative to the cost of litigation, with cases where a domain name registrant is charged by a trademark owner with having no legitimate rights to the domain.
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Southwest and the union representing its fleet service workers filed for federal mediation Oct. 31, providing a note of labor discord at an airline known for its good management-employee relations.
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