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Liability Insurance At The Tort-Crime Boundary, Tom Baker
Liability Insurance At The Tort-Crime Boundary, Tom Baker
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This essay explores how liability insurance mediates the boundary between torts and crime. Liability insurance sometimes separates these two legal fields, for example through the application of standard insurance contract provisions that exclude insurance coverage for some crimes that are also torts. Perhaps less obviously, liability insurance also can draw parts of the tort and criminal fields together. For example, professional liability insurance civilizes the criminal law experience for some crimes that are also torts by providing defendants with an insurance-paid criminal defense that provides more than ordinary means to contest the state’s accusations. The crime-tort separation in liability insurance …
On The Genealogy Of Moral Hazard, Tom Baker
On The Genealogy Of Moral Hazard, Tom Baker
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