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Full-Text Articles in Torts
Emerging Trends For Products Liability: Market Share Liability, Its History And Future, Frank J. Giliberti
Emerging Trends For Products Liability: Market Share Liability, Its History And Future, Frank J. Giliberti
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Replacing Strict Liability With A Contract-Based Products Liability Regime, Richard C. Ausness
Replacing Strict Liability With A Contract-Based Products Liability Regime, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
When strict products liability first appeared on the scene some thirty-five years ago, it was heralded as a boon to consumers whose claims to compensation had hitherto been frustrated by the law of sales. Warranty law, it was said, worked fairly well in purely "commercial" transactions, but tort law did a better job in cases where ordinary consumers suffered personal injuries or property damage from defective products. To be sure, defenders of warranty law pointed out that the newly-drafted Uniform Commercial Code (the "Code" or "U.C.C.") was much more consumer friendly than the old Uniform Sales Act. Nevertheless, the proponents …
An Insurance-Based Compensation System For Product-Related Injuries, Richard C. Ausness
An Insurance-Based Compensation System For Product-Related Injuries, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In recent years, an increasing number of commentators have begun to express doubts about the effectiveness of the tort system. According to these critics, tort law does not deter accidents, nor does it spread accident costs efficiently. Worst of all, the tort system is extremely expensive to operate. Some of this criticism has spilled over into the products liability area. Products liability law has been condemned as expensive, ineffective, and regressive; in addition, it has been blamed for higher product prices, foreign competition, problems within the liability insurance industry, corporate bankruptcies, lack of product development, and the removal of useful …
Review Of: M. Stuart Madden, Toxic Torts Deskbook, Laura Marron
Review Of: M. Stuart Madden, Toxic Torts Deskbook, Laura Marron
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
M. Stuart Madden, Toxic Torts Deskbook (Lewis Publishers 1992). Acknowledgements, case index, general index, notes, preface. LC 91-48238; ISBN 0- 87371-508-X. [230 pp. Cloth $69.95 domestic, $84.00 elsewhere. 2000 Corporate Boulevard, NW, Boca Raton FL 33431.]Review of:
Sticks And Stones Can Break My Name: Nondefamatory Negligent Injury To Reputation, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Sticks And Stones Can Break My Name: Nondefamatory Negligent Injury To Reputation, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Faculty Scholarship
If a reputation is injured, does it matter whether defamation is the cause? Injury to reputation differs from other items of damage a plaintiff enumerates. Tradition links it to particular tortious conduct-defamation-on the part of a defendant. This Comment examines ordinary negligent conduct as an alternative ground for recovery for injury to reputation.
Once Is Enough: A Proposed Bar Of The Injured Employee's Cause Of Action Against A Third Party, Philip D. Oliver
Once Is Enough: A Proposed Bar Of The Injured Employee's Cause Of Action Against A Third Party, Philip D. Oliver
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Apportionment In Kentucky After Comparative Negligence, John M. Rogers
Apportionment In Kentucky After Comparative Negligence, John M. Rogers
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Adoption of comparative negligence gives juries the task of allocating fault between a plaintiff and a defendant when both were negligent and both caused the plaintiff's injury. A logical corollary must be that juries are theoretically and practically able to make such an allocation. If so, it follows that juries are able to make such an allocation among multiple defendants, each of whom was found to be both negligent and a cause of the plaintiff's injury. The judicial adoption of comparative negligence in Kentucky therefore requires a reexamination of the rules applicable to multiple tortfeasors. Cases decided since the adoption …
Retribution And Deterrence: The Role Of Punitive Damages In Products Liability Litigation, Richard C. Ausness
Retribution And Deterrence: The Role Of Punitive Damages In Products Liability Litigation, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Punitive damages constitute an award to an injured party above what is necessary to compensate for actual loss. This Article considers whether punitive damages are an effective means of promoting the goals of products liability law. Section I traces the use of punitive damages in products liability litigation from the early 1960's to the present time. Section II examines the traditional rationales for punitive damages and considers whether they are appropriate in the products liability context. Finally, Section III evaluates some of the measures that commentators have proposed to adapt more fully the concept of punitive damages to products liability …
Cardozo Revisited: Liability To Third Parties; A Real Property Perspective, Robert Kratovil
Cardozo Revisited: Liability To Third Parties; A Real Property Perspective, Robert Kratovil
Seattle University Law Review
One of the most outstanding jurists of our time, Justice Benjamin Cardozo, articulated a principle spanning the "seamless web" of the law which, unfortunately, has been obscured by the attempts of courts, casebook writers, and law professors to pigeonhole the principle into familiar categories. Justice Cardozo established the principle that a person who undertakes a task is liable for injury to remote third parties, regardless of lack of privity, which arises from the person's negligent performance of the task. Cardozo also enunciated an exception to this rule which developed into a widely accepted opposing rule. This Article first traces the …
A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
A Comparative Negligence Checklist To Avoid Future Unnecessary Litigation, John M. Rogers, Randy Donald Shaw
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Systems of comparative negligence, whereby the negligence of a plaintiff serves to reduce rather than to preclude tort recovery in negligence, have been adopted in thirty-nine states. The common law rule that contributory negligence is an absolute bar to recovery is still the law in Kentucky, although modified by the doctrine of "last clear chance." Kentucky may soon join the trend toward comparative negligence, however. In the last legislative session, bills to adopt comparative negligence were introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. A hearing on this subject was held by the Interim Judiciary and Civil Procedure …
Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold
Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Innocent Injury And Loss Distribution: The Florida Pure Comparative Negligence System, Vincent S. Walkowiak
Innocent Injury And Loss Distribution: The Florida Pure Comparative Negligence System, Vincent S. Walkowiak
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This issue of the Survey of Kentucky tort law includes recent decisions on false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and products liability. The first case, Consolidated Sales Co. v. Malone, held that Kentucky's shoplifter detention statute authorized a personal search of suspected shoplifters by store personnel. In the second case, Eigelbach v. Watts, the Kentucky Supreme Court adhered to its longstanding rule that physical impact was essential to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Finally, in the third decision, McMichael v. American Red Cross, the Court, utilizing the Restatement's “unavoidably unsafe” rationale, refused to impose …
Contribution Among Tortfeasors: A Comment On Amended Ohio House Bill 531, J. Patrick Browne
Contribution Among Tortfeasors: A Comment On Amended Ohio House Bill 531, J. Patrick Browne
Cleveland State Law Review
On October 1, 1976, Amended House Bill 531 became effective as sections 2307.31 and 2307.32 of the Ohio Revised Code. As stated in the preamble, the purpose of the Act is to provide for the contribution among two or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort. Like all new legislation, it is bound to have a certain amount of "teething problems" in its initial use. This Article will discuss some of the anticipated problems, and propose suggested means for resolving them. The heart of the new law is found in section 2307.31(A)3 which indicates that several elements must combine …
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article provides a survey of Kentucky legal developments in the area of tort law. During the past term the Kentucky Court of Appeals was quite active in the area of torts. The Court considered cases involving battery, nuisance, products liability and negligence. The negligence decisions dealt with a defendant's standard of care, contributory negligence, and last clear chance. Four of these cases have been selected for examination in this article.
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Kentucky Law Survey: Torts, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article provides a survey of Kentucky legal developments in the area of tort law. The topics covered in this discussion include: negligence per se, res ipsa loquitur, the legal duty of a land owner, parental liability for the acts of children, the last clear chance doctrine, products liability, private nuisance, and public nuisance.
Legal Issues Relating To Electroconvulsive Therapy, H. Richard Beresford
Legal Issues Relating To Electroconvulsive Therapy, H. Richard Beresford
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
A survey of 54 psychiatric units disclosed that 49 (91%) were using electroconvulsive (ECT), principally for major depressive illnesses. During the five-year period 1964 to 1968, fractures and other complications of ECT were uncommon. Sudden death was reported in seven cases. During this period, none of the respondents or their affiliated physicians had been involved in lawsuits relating to the use of ECT. In general, suits for injuries occasioned by the use of ECT seem to be declining. Possible remaining problem areas are the performance of ECT without the prior consent of the patient; the failure to have facilities and …
The Collateral Source Rule And Personal Injury Damages: The Irrelevant Principle And The Functional Approach, Part I, Robert Allen Sedler
The Collateral Source Rule And Personal Injury Damages: The Irrelevant Principle And The Functional Approach, Part I, Robert Allen Sedler
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Collateral Source Rule And Personal Injury Damages: The Irrelevant Principle And The Functional Approach, Part Ii, Robert Allen Sedler
The Collateral Source Rule And Personal Injury Damages: The Irrelevant Principle And The Functional Approach, Part Ii, Robert Allen Sedler
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Of Mace And Men: Tort Law As A Means Of Controlling Domestic Chemical Warfare, Joseph A. Page
Of Mace And Men: Tort Law As A Means Of Controlling Domestic Chemical Warfare, Joseph A. Page
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The use of MACE and other chemical sprays by the police and the public has caused considerable comment and controversy during the last several years. Recognizing the seriousness of the problem, Professor Page analyzes the efficacy of present law to control the misuse of chemical sprays. In this analysis Professor Page first discusses the deve/opmellt of the use of MACE and the heated controversy that surrounds both its employment and potentially deleterious effects. He then turns to the application of intentional tort, negligence, warranty, and strict liability concepts as methods by which victims of MACE might hold the user or …
Radiation Injuries: Statute Of Limitations Inadequacies In Tort Cases, Samuel D. Estep, Thomas W. Van Dyke
Radiation Injuries: Statute Of Limitations Inadequacies In Tort Cases, Samuel D. Estep, Thomas W. Van Dyke
Michigan Law Review
Some injuries from overexposure to radiation may manifest themselves within existing statutory limitations periods, at least under some liberal ( or loose) judicial interpretations. Many injurious manifestations, however, will not arise for a great many years after exposure; it is the thesis of this article that some new legislative solutions must be adopted. Limiting the right to sue to the existing time periods as construed by many courts will be manifestly unfair to plaintiffs. A blanket, unconditional extension of the time period to as much as thirty years for all cases regardless of the local rule as to when the …
Torts-Negligent Misrepresentation-Abolition Of The Privity Requirement, Leon E. Irish
Torts-Negligent Misrepresentation-Abolition Of The Privity Requirement, Leon E. Irish
Michigan Law Review
Defendants, professional consulting engineers, contracted with the city of Chattanooga to design a sewage system. As part of their performance of the contract they prepared a report of geological conditions which was to be distributed by the city to prospective bidders. Plaintiff, a tunneling subcontractor, had no dealings with the defendants, but did rely on their report in making its bid. Because one of defendant's draftsmen carelessly omitted pertinent geological information from the report, it took plaintiff three weeks longer to complete the work than had been anticipated. Plaintiff sued defendant for damages for misrepresentation; held, plaintiff may recover. …
Ordering Physical Examination Of Personal Injury Plaintiffs
Ordering Physical Examination Of Personal Injury Plaintiffs
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Admiralty--Liability--Transitory Unseaworthiness, Richard Delamielleure
Admiralty--Liability--Transitory Unseaworthiness, Richard Delamielleure
Michigan Law Review
While loading grain aboard a ship, the petitioners, longshoremen, were injured when they inhaled noxious fumes from a shot of grain released into the vessel's hold, the grain having been treated with a chemical insecticide by unknown parties at an inland point. Petitioners brought suit against the city, which owned the grain elevators, and the shipowner, alleging, among other things, that the vessel was unseaworthy. The district court found the ship to be seaworthy, and the circuit court of appeals affirmed the judgment for the defendant. On certiorari the Supreme Court vacated the judgment and remanded the case to the …
Longshoreman-Shipowner-Stevedore: The Circle Of Liability, Harney B. Stover, Jr.
Longshoreman-Shipowner-Stevedore: The Circle Of Liability, Harney B. Stover, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
It is universally recognized that in the past two decades the United States Supreme Court has substantially revised the law under which seamen, longshoremen and harbor workers (or their survivors) may recover damages for personal injury and death. One of the more recent and most authoritative texts in the field of admiralty and maritime law devotes an entire chapter, 147 pages in length, to the subject of the rights of seamen and maritime workers (or their survivors) of recovery for injury and death. The introduction to that chapter likens the Court's rewriting of the law in this field to a …
Book Reviews, O. Kahn-Freund, Saul Medlovitz, Charles D. Kelso, J. Francis Paschal, Thomas A. Cowan, Lowell Turrentine, Richard S. Sullivan, G. Robert Ellegaard, Richard Arens, Ilmar Tammelo, J. Myron Jacobstein, Paul O. Proehl
Book Reviews, O. Kahn-Freund, Saul Medlovitz, Charles D. Kelso, J. Francis Paschal, Thomas A. Cowan, Lowell Turrentine, Richard S. Sullivan, G. Robert Ellegaard, Richard Arens, Ilmar Tammelo, J. Myron Jacobstein, Paul O. Proehl
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this article is not to re-plow the ground of history, case law, and statutory developments which has been so competently tilled by others. Nor is the purpose to give a detailed consideration of each of the practical matters mentioned above. Instead, the focus of this article is on the relationship between comparative negligence and automobile liability insurance. Insurance rates and accident statistics, rather than rules of law and cases, are the primary materials. Such a consideration of the subject it might be hoped would give a positive and substantiated answer to the frequently debated but never documented …
Green: Traffic Victims. Tort Law And Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball
Green: Traffic Victims. Tort Law And Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Traffic Victims. Tort Law and Insurance. By Leon Green.
Negligence - Duty Of Care - Liability For Injury Caused By Obvious Defect Where Lessor Contracted To Repair, Donald R. Jolliffe
Negligence - Duty Of Care - Liability For Injury Caused By Obvious Defect Where Lessor Contracted To Repair, Donald R. Jolliffe
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, lessor of a delivery truck, agreed with the lessee to maintain the vehicle in good condition and make regular inspections. The lessee's driver was not to make any repairs or adjustments but was to deliver the truck to the lessor as it needed repairs or as requested for inspection. Two years after the lease was made, plaintiff-driver made a written request to the lessor for repairs to the floor in the driver's compartment. Although plaintiff left the truck overnight with the lessor and made several further requests, the floor was not repaired. One month after notifying the lessor, plaintiff …
Air Law - Imputed Negligence - Liability Of Airplane Owner For Negligence Of Pilot, George E. Lohr S.Ed.
Air Law - Imputed Negligence - Liability Of Airplane Owner For Negligence Of Pilot, George E. Lohr S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, passenger in an airplane owned by defendant as proprietor of the flight school and piloted by a flight trainee with defendant's permission, suffered injuries in a crash allegedly caused by the negligence of the pilot and brought this action against defendant owner to recover damages. The trial court sustained defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint. On appeal, held, reversed and remanded for new trial. If the allegations of negligence of the pilot are found to be true, defendant would be liable for plaintiff's injuries even though he was not in actual control of the airplane. The governing statutory …