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The Dimensions Of The Product Liability Crisis, W. Kip Viscusi
The Dimensions Of The Product Liability Crisis, W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Examination of a variety of sources of statistics indicates that the product liability crisis is real, and it is not simply imagined or contrived by the insurance industry. Litigation in the product liability area has escalated dramatically, but to some extent the industry was able to mute the effect of this escalation because of the influence of rising interest rates in the early 1980s as well as because the shrinking market for product liability insurance masked much of the explosion that was occurring in terms of the costs of product liability coverage. The dominant pattern in the early 1980s was …