Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects

COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF, OR DAMAGE TO, PERSONAL

Loss of life or personal injury, damage to property and loss of income, as well as environmental damage, are covered by the Protocol (art. 2 (2) (d)).

(iii) loss or damage by impairment of the environment

306.5 Compensation for loss of, or damage to, personal effects

Loss or damage by impairment under subparagraph (iii) also covered loss of income in respect of such impairment.

The incidental loss of life or injury and collateral damage must be carefully considered.

(a) Reducing loss of life and property damage due to natural and human made disasters

Tolerating loss, where short term adverse impacts are absorbed without permanent damage

These blooms result in beach closings, damage to fisheries and the loss of tourism revenues.

In contrast, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Cuba recorded much lower levels of loss and damage.

whether damage would be limited to the environment, or include property personal loss

often lose at least one limb and often suffer additional muscular damage, damage to internal organs, blindness and the loss of testes... . (A 49 357, para.4)

The same applies to loss of or damage to physical amenities for local people.

The author himself suffered material and non material damage and a 20 per cent loss of earning capacity.

However, the Panel has also noted that the fact that other factors might have contributed to the loss or damage does not exonerate Iraq from liability for loss or damage that resulted directly from the invasion and occupation.

Whether or not any environmental damage or loss for which compensation is claimed was a direct result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait will depend on the evidence presented in relation to each particular loss or damage.

Subparagraphs (i) and (ii) covered loss of life or personal injury and property damage, including aspects of pure economic loss, such as loss of income directly related to the injury or deriving from the property.

5. Conflict has also resulted in substantial damage to the infrastructure and loss of agricultural land and other resources.

However, local insurance has meant that importers were indemnified in case of loss or damage to their merchandise in local currency, whereas the replacement or repair of loss or damage to goods imported required foreign exchange.

Those who survive wounds from AP mines often lose at least one limb and often suffer additional muscular damage, damage to internal organs, blindness and the loss of testes.

Damage to the optic tract posterior to the chiasm causes loss of vision in the visual field on the side opposite to the damage.

(ii) loss of, or damage to, property, including property which forms part of the cultural heritage

Damage in the optic chiasm causes loss of vision laterally in both visual fields (bitemporal hemianopsia).

There is no causation required between the misstatement and the liability for delay, loss or damage to the goods.

The use of roads has reduced loss and damage to cargo and the transit times from border posts to internal destinations.

Apart from the enormous and tragic loss of life, there has been great damage to the environment, particularly to forests.

In 1991 alone, 434 major natural disasters caused a loss of 162,000 lives and US 44 billion in economic damage.

f. Claims reviewed and processed for loss or damage of personal effects attributable to the performance of official duties on

In this context, some delegations welcomed the fact that the definition of damage covered both consequential economic loss and pure economic loss, including loss of income directly deriving from an economic interest in any use of the environment.

A. Chaudhry (Pakistan) The earthquake that hit Pakistan on 8 October has caused tremendous loss of life and damage to infrastructure.

2. The compensation shall cover any financially assessable damage including loss of profits insofar as it is established.

Environmental limits to the growth of tourism must be identified and enforced before irreversible damage, such as loss of species and habitats, occurs.

The first claim unit is for damage to terrestrial resources the second claim unit is for damage to Kuwait's marine and coastal resources and the third claim unit is for the loss of groundwater resources.

We gather in the United States two weeks after Hurricane Katrina caused so much loss of life and so much material damage.

When recommending compensation for damage or loss that has been found to be a direct result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, the Panel has in every case assured itself that the applicable evidentiary requirements regarding the circumstances and amount of the damage or loss claimed have been satisfied.

(a) The goods are live animals except where it is proved that the loss, damage, or delay resulted from an action or omission of the carrier or of a person mentioned in Article 14bis done recklessly and with knowledge that such loss, damage, or delay would probably occur or

Only when the disease goes untreated does the damage caused to the peripheral nerves lead to loss of sensation and invite ulceration and wounds.

Also noting with concern the serious damage and loss of life caused by natural disasters and their negative impact on public health and health systems,

Also noting with concern the serious damage and loss of life caused by natural disasters and their negative impact on public health and health systems,

All reasonable precautions must be taken to avoid injury, loss or damage to civilians and civilian objects and locations and the creation of unnecessary ERW.

Rapid changes in geological conditions, or the consequences of natural forces such as flooding, can result in major damage and loss of life.

is liable under international law for any direct loss, damage, including environmental damage and the depletion of natural resources, or injury to foreign Governments, nationals and corporations, as a result of Iraq's unlawful invasion and occupation of Kuwait .

Similarly, many regimes infer responsibility to compensate for any loss or damage in cases of fraud in intra group transactions.

(d) That Serbia and Montenegro is liable under international law for any direct loss, damage, including environmental damage, or injury to foreign Governments, nationals and corporations, as a result of its aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina