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The Effect of Joint and Several Liability on the Bankruptcy Rate of Defendants: Evidence from Asbestos Ligation

The Effect of Joint and Several Liability on the Bankruptcy Rate of Defendants: Evidence from Asbestos Litigation - Under the doctrine of joint and several liability, if two defendants jointly share a liability and the first becomes insolvent, his unpaid
Anup Malani
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Safer Construction and Maintenance Safer Construction and Maintenance Practices to Minimize Potential Liability by Counties from Accidents, September 1979 [PDF]

, 1979
Tort claims resulting from alleged highway defects have introduced an additional element in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of highways.

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CIVIL LIABILITY OF PRINCIPAL FOR THE ACTS OF AGENT – A COMPARISON BETWEEN FRANCE AND MAURITIUS

Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
Mauritian civil law is strongly influenced by French civil law, for historical reasons. Civil liability, tort and contractual law, is regulated in an almost same manner in the two countries.
Goran GEORGIJEVIĆ
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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms [PDF]

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size.
Friedson, Andrew I., Kniesner, Thomas J.
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Law and Economics of Obligations [PDF]

While various liability rules of tort law provide efficient incentives to invest, breach remedies of contract law are claimed to be distortive. Since, at least in Germany, obligations law provides general rules for both contractual and tort relationships
Urs Schweizer
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EFFICIENCY OF EQUILIBRIA UNDER COMPARATIVE CAUSATION [PDF]

For past three decades or so, the negligence liability has been a major preoccupation of the economic analysis of liability rules. However, recently it has invited severe criticisms on several counts.
Ram Singh, FRANCESCO PARISI
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The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability [PDF]

Policymakers and the public are concerned about the role of medical malpractice liability in the rising cost of medical care. We use variation in the generosity of local juries to identify the causal impact of malpractice liability on medical costs ...
Darius N. Lakdawalla, Seth A. Seabury
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General issues of liability for harm caused for life and health in Germany and Kazakhstan: comparative analyses

Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2018
This article deals with the comparative analyses of legislation of Germany and Kazakhstan on liability for harm caused for life and health. The system of tort legislation of Kazakhstan and Germany is shown.
A.S. Dochshanova, N.B. Smatlayev
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The Choice of Instruments for Environmental Policy: Liability or Regulation? [PDF]

We address in this paper the problem of comparing and choosing among different policy instruments to implement the incentive objective of an efficient deterrence of environmental degradation and the remedy objective of an efficient clean-up of damages ...
Donatella Porrini, Marcel Boyer
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THE CORE OF PURE ECONOMIC LOSS

Should loss of earnings be compensated? The established law and economics wisdom considers pure economic loss as a transfer of wealth from the victim to a third party, whose earnings increase as a consequence of the accident. Such transfers do not amount
Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci   +1 more
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