#11 – COVER YOUR ASSETS 101 AND PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY – ED PERKINS

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIs plausible deniability dead?

One strategy of corporate counsel that has been shown in various media reports is “plausible deniability”.  Ethics rules for attorneys may require them to reveal compromising facts to the opposing side.  If you can show you didn’t know that the plant could blow up and it blew up; then it may not be your fault.  Nice legal term called ‘legal causation’.  No facts to prove the case.  Sorry victims, it was an act of God, an accident.

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