Litigation Risk
Categories: Regulations, Company Management
When we talk about “litigation risk,” we’re basically asking, “How likely is this person or business entity to get sued?” While there’s always a chance that any one of us and/or any one of our employers could be sued, some industries (and individuals, frankly) are a lot more likely to face lawsuits than others. Doctors and hospitals, construction companies, and timeshare organizations, for example, get sued a lot. In other words, they have a high litigation risk.
And they know this, which is why they and other companies almost always have something about dealing with litigation lined out in their operating procedures. In fact, if the company is publicly traded, this is a requirement.
For example, maybe our company has a mandatory arbitration process to deal with disgruntled employees. Or maybe we have a policy that, if our organization is sued for less than $100,000, we settle out of court and avoid costly trials and legal fees. Organizations are all about mitigating risk, so if they know they’re prone to lawsuits, it makes sense that they’d put measures in place to minimize its effects on the business as a whole.
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finance a la shmoop what are systemic and unsystematic risk systemic risks are
just endemic to the market want to invest in the stock market and compound [Plate of vegetable appear]
return your way into great wealth great but then you'll suffer the normal risk
of the system that risk specifically is this yeah best of times worst of times
but up over time the market goes up you just have to embrace the notion that [Man hugging a tree]
there is systemic risk in that in the short run you can buy an S&P 500 index
fund here then lose like a third or whatever of your money in not too many
years but if you don't panic and sell just at the wrong time here right out
the storm and keep going well then you should be just fine by the time you
arrive here so that's risk that is always in the system equities rise and [Equity in the ocean]
fall like the tides or something like that but generally they rise and if you
want to swim in this bathtub well you get used to the turbulence and have an [Girl swimming against the tide]
airsick bag handy all right that systemic risk or systemic risk
what's unsystematic risk well it's bad investors or rather bad investing it's
panicking and selling your stock just when you should be doubling down its
buying lousy companies thinking that they're cheap today but not realizing [Woman runs away from smelly girl]
that they will always be cheap because they're lousy or in a lousy industry or
run by lousy management it's buying into lousy industries that also look cheap
but are dying hello paper and pulp is yeah anyone really think that's gonna be [Paper printing]
around in 20 years all right well it's believing the dreamy hopes and prayers
of future earnings and trusting that there really will be 5 million [Traffic on the highway]
driverless cars on the road in 3 years you know good luck with that we'd love
it to be true but ain't gonna be unsystematic risk is also investing in
bonds for the long-term taking very little risk when taking little risk is
the opposite of what you should be doing when you're a young investor so yeah
systematic and unsystematic risk both exist plentifully and both can bite you [Dog bites portfolio from woman]
right in the portfolio so you got to know what both are and embrace them
for what they're worth