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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (44443)7/28/2010 6:41:58 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
Re: [And --- with the other example that I gave, Price Anderson and nuclear power plant accident liability --- the risk for *all* damages above and beyond the statutory damages cap is SPECIFICALLY passed along to the government!] "Which doesn't change the point that a cap is not a transfer of liability to the government. In this case the act did more than one thing, it caped the liability of the nuclear plant operators and it moved liability to the government."

So... Price Anderson does transfer liability DIRECTLY from industry to the government... while the federal cap on off-shore spills merely 'caps' spill liability for private industry... and, what? Leaves those damaged in excess of the cap's limits dangling alone in the wind and forced to fight against the federal damages cap in court under their own steam, while the oil companies have the federal government's law 'at their back' strengthening their defenses against the damage claims from the victims they've created?

(Sweet deals, either way!)
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