A theoretical solution would be to have a global financial authority , with powers akin to the international monetary fund , that could salvage a global institution and apportion the costs appropriately .
A trial that will apportion liability for the oil spill among bp and its partners is due to start in louisiana on february 27th , unless the company reaches a settlement before then .
The idea is that data captured by the recorders would give investigators and road-safety officials a better understanding of how certain crashes come about . It would also help police and insurance companies to apportion blame .
Even without mr brown 's stipulation that it wouldn 't " apportion blame " ( later finessed by david miliband , the foreign secretary ) , it probably wouldn 't have done .