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The Economic Treatment Of Automobile Injuries, Alfred F. Conard
The Economic Treatment Of Automobile Injuries, Alfred F. Conard
Michigan Law Review
The automobile has changed more than Americans' ways of transportation. It has changed their ways of housing, of working and playing, of eating, living, and loving. It has also added to their ways of suffering and dying.
The suffering and dying have called forth two kinds of treatment. The better recognized kind is medical treatment, which staves off death and minimizes pain and disability among the living. The less recognized kind of treatment is economic-the restoration to the injury victim or to his dependents of some part of the economic wellbeing that has been snatched away from them by loss …
Abstracts Of Recent Cases, William Walter Smith
Abstracts Of Recent Cases, William Walter Smith
West Virginia Law Review
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Private Insurance As A Solution To The Driver-Guest Dilemm, Harvey R. Friedman
Private Insurance As A Solution To The Driver-Guest Dilemm, Harvey R. Friedman
Michigan Law Review
The duty of the driver of an automobile to his nonpaying passenger, and liability arising from the breach of that duty, has long presented a troublesome area of litigation for the courts and the parties involved. Application of standards unsuited for the peculiar risks of automotive transportation has produced inadequate compensation in some cases and excessive recoveries in others. Meanwhile, trial calendars are overcrowded with personal injury litigation, and insurance companies must bear the awards of sympathetic juries and those resulting from collusion between passenger and driver. The over-all expense of this method of determination of liability, far too little …