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Civil Practice: Comparative Negligence, Jay C. Carlisle
Civil Practice: Comparative Negligence, Jay C. Carlisle
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Recent decisional law by the Court of Appeals has placed new limits on the applicability of article 14-A to some assumption of risk cases, to matters involving some labor law violations, and to violations of legal prohibitions. These limitations are important to the practitioner representing clients who seek to benefit from New York's comparative negligence statute.
Torts, Ralph Michael Stein
Torts, Ralph Michael Stein
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
While the last several years have witnessed significant change in the field of tort law, viewed as advancement by some and regression by others, 1985 was a relatively stable year, at least in the courtroom. With a sometimes real, sometimes imagined, crisis in the liability insurance field, the drive to change, reform, improve, and re-package the law of civil wrongs has been in full swing. A myriad of legislative proposals followed a continued public debate, fueled by high pressure advertising campaigns, about the societal cost of the common law tort system. Local governments threatened to close parks and police departments; …