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Full-Text Articles in Law
Private Insurance, Social Insurance, And Tort Reform: Toward A New Vision Of Compensation For Illness And Injury, Kenneth S. Abraham, Lance Liebman
Private Insurance, Social Insurance, And Tort Reform: Toward A New Vision Of Compensation For Illness And Injury, Kenneth S. Abraham, Lance Liebman
Faculty Scholarship
The United States does not have a system for compensating the victims of illness and injury; it has a set of different institutions that provide compensation. We rely on both tort law and giant programs of public and private insurance to compensate the victims of illness and injury. These institutions perform related functions, but the relationships among them are far from coherent. Indeed, the institutions sometimes work at cross-purposes, compensating some victims excessively and others not at all.
The absence of a coherent system of compensation is reflected even in suggested reforms of existing institutions. Proposals to reform tort law …
Legislative Reforms Of Governmental Tort Liability: Overreacting To Minimal Evidence, Ann Judith Gellis
Legislative Reforms Of Governmental Tort Liability: Overreacting To Minimal Evidence, Ann Judith Gellis
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Deforming Tort Reform, Joseph A. Page
Book Review: Deforming Tort Reform, Joseph A. Page
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The storms buffeting the tort system over the past two decades have come in three distinct waves. In the late 1960s, steep increases in the insurance costs incurred by health care providers protecting against negligence claims by patients triggered what came to be known as the "medical malpractice crisis." In the mid-1970s, manufacturers whose liability insurance premiums suddenly soared raised obstreperous complaints that called public attention to the existence of a "product liability crisis." Finally, other groups whose activities created risks exposing them to lawsuits found that their liability insurance rates had also risen precipitously. A full-blown "torts crisis" was …
Liberating Progress And The Free Market From The Specter Of Tort Liability (Book Review), Vincent R. Johnson
Liberating Progress And The Free Market From The Specter Of Tort Liability (Book Review), Vincent R. Johnson
Faculty Articles
That all is not well with tort law cannot seriously be doubted. In Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences, Peter Huber attempts to chronicle the changes in tort doctrine over the past thirty or so years that have brought tort law to its present crisis, and to prescribe sweeping remedial actions capable of defining a more intelligent course of accident compensation. Drastic measures are necessary, Huber argues, because of the magnitude of the emergency.
Huber’s critique of modern tort law is always provocative and often perceptive and enlightening. The book identifies many jurisprudential trouble-spots which cry out for reform, …
Statutory Damage Caps Are An Incomplete Reform: A Proposal For Attorney Fee Shifting In Tort Actions, Gregory A. Hicks
Statutory Damage Caps Are An Incomplete Reform: A Proposal For Attorney Fee Shifting In Tort Actions, Gregory A. Hicks
Articles
The premise of this article is that the currently unsettled status of noneconomic damage awards offers an opportunity to reexamine the function of such awards, and to move tort law in the direction of more stable and rational remedies, something that could not be achieved either under recently adopted damage cap statutes or through the reinstatement of unrestricted compensation of noneconomic losses.
This article has two parts. In the first part, the ambiguous role of noneconomic damages, that is, their function as makeweight compensation for noncompensable litigation expenses and as compensation for real intangible injuries, is described. This ambiguity has …
Negligent Accounting And The Limits Of Instrumental Tort Reform, John A. Siliciano
Negligent Accounting And The Limits Of Instrumental Tort Reform, John A. Siliciano
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
No Exit?: Opting Out, The Contractual Theory Of The Corporation, And The Special Case Of Remedies, John C. Coffee Jr.
No Exit?: Opting Out, The Contractual Theory Of The Corporation, And The Special Case Of Remedies, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
Aloof and insular as corporate law often seems, it cannot remain uninfluenced for very long by developments in the mainstream of American civil law. In that mainstream, there is today flowing a strong, swift current called "tort reform." As currents go, this one is remarkably broad and perhaps a little shallow, but on it floats a number of diverse legislative proposals – ceilings on liability, restrictions on attorneys' fees, greater reliance on alternative methods of dispute resolution, restrictions on joint and several liability and contribution, and the curtailment of punitive damages. All of these proposals flow from the same wellspring: …
Corporate Behavior And The Social Efficiency Of Tort Law, John A. Siliciano
Corporate Behavior And The Social Efficiency Of Tort Law, John A. Siliciano
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Rethinking The Class Action: A Policy Primer On Reform, John C. Coffee Jr.
Rethinking The Class Action: A Policy Primer On Reform, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
Today, virtually everyone has a proposal for "reforming" class action litigation but both consensus and coherence are lacking. Some proposals are bluntly restrictive. For example, the Reagan Administration would reduce attorney's fees, place a ceiling on product liability, and partially repeal treble damage statutes. In the same vein, the United States Supreme Court has shown itself parsimonious on the question of fee awards, by authorizing fee waivers, approving offers of settlement that seemingly permit fee shifting against the plaintiff's attorney, and curtailing the traditional bases on which a fee award may be enhanced. Other proposals have offered essentially neutral procedural …
Staff Report Of The Joint Committee On Tort Liability To The Governor And Legislature, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
Staff Report Of The Joint Committee On Tort Liability To The Governor And Legislature, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
California Joint Committees
No abstract provided.
Transcript Of Hearing On Procedural Reform, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
Transcript Of Hearing On Procedural Reform, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
California Joint Committees
No abstract provided.
Transcript Of Hearing On Government Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
Transcript Of Hearing On Government Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
California Joint Committees
No abstract provided.
Transcript Of Hearing On Products Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
Transcript Of Hearing On Products Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
California Joint Committees
No abstract provided.
Transcript Of Hearing On Professional Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
Transcript Of Hearing On Professional Liability, Joint Committee On Tort Liability
California Joint Committees
No abstract provided.