Mass torts in a world of settlement /

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The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nagareda, Richard A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Torts > United States.
Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States.
Complex litigation > United States.
Responsabilité civile > États-Unis.
Actions collectives (Procédure civile) > États-Unis.
Instances complexes > États-Unis.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Complex litigation.
Torts.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins
  • The development of a mass tort
  • Regulating development indirectly
  • Making and enforcing a grid
  • The rise and fall of the mass tort class settlement
  • Public legislation and private contracts
  • Mandatory class actions revisited
  • Maximizing or minimizing opt-outs
  • Bankruptcy transformed
  • Government as plaintiff
  • Leveraging conflicts of interest
  • Administering the leveraging proposal.

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