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The Market In Unmatured Tort Claims: Twenty-Five Years Later, Stephen Marks
The Market In Unmatured Tort Claims: Twenty-Five Years Later, Stephen Marks
Pace Law Review
In an article in 1989 in the Virginia Law Review, Professor Robert Cooter argued for changes in the law that would facilitate the development of a market in unmatured tort claims. An unmatured tort claim is a potential claim that a potential victim has before any injury has occurred. Cooter proposed that potential victims have the right to sell their unmatured tort claims. That is, Cooter proposed that potential victims be allowed to sell their right to sue even before an accident or injury ever occurs. Even twenty-five years later, the proposal remains both bold and imaginative, and yet it …