If you're in the mob, this term includes leg breaking, awl-in-nostril-shoving, and potential sleeping-with-the-fishes-type scenarios. Outside the mob, it just means using something other than a lawsuit to figure out conflict. This technique can include things like arbitration or using a mediator to attempt to resolve a dispute. So you get more Social Network and less Goodfellas. And yes, some of these glossary terms really are what they sound like they should be about.
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Finance allah shmoop what is contingent liability All right you
know what a liability is right It's a debt it's
a promise you've made that you need to fulfill teo
pay someone and fulfilling it can be done with cash
or ah promise of delivering inventory or after you've sold
the home to the joneses An interesting family with oddly
large foreheads you know delivering good title to the home
to them right So you're fulfilling liability of producing your
home so what's a contingent liability Well think of it
is a call option or a put option on a
security A contingent liability is a derivative of some other
underlying being like another liability Well the most common contingent
liability would be a filed lawsuit that is more than
just an ambulance chasing securities lawyer hoping to get a
quick five hundred grand to go away google might be
willing to pay three billion dollars toe by ring That
wireless doorbell company started by some weirdo contingent upon ring
properly defending its lawsuit from honeywell which claims that they
own the patents on the process while the financial outcome
of that lawsuit is a contingent liability to the company
Ring and the outcome of the joneses moving into town
well is a worldwide dominance and the enslavement of all
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