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Understanding enterprise liability : rethinking tort reform for the Twenty-first Century /
In recent years critics have assailed the cost, inefficiency, and unfairness of American tort law, including products liability and medical malpractice. Yet victims of accidental injury who look to the tort system for deserved compensation often find it a formidable obstacle. Those who seek to refor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Enterprise Liability: An Introduction. 1. Contemporary Tort Reform and Enterprise Liability. 2. Traditional Tort Theory and Enterprise Liability: An Overview
- pt. II. The Compensation Plan Strategy. 3. Workers' Compensation Plans and Enterprise Liability. 4. Leon Green: Explication and Application. 5. The Columbia Plan and Dashed Hopes. 6. Renewed Focus on Compensation Plans in the 1950s. 7. The Keeton-O'Connell Plan, Legislative Successes, and Proposed Extensions of No-Fault. 8. Dashed Hopes (Again) and the Need for Alternatives
- pt. III. The Common Law Strategy. 9. Leon Green and the "Tort" Version. 10. Karl Llewellyn and the "Sales Law" Version: Strict Products Liability Proposed. 11. Perspectives on Courts and Legislatures: The 1930s. 12. Increased Focus on the Common Law: The 1940s. 13. The Possibility of a Judicially Created Strict Enterprise Liability. 14. Strict Products Liability: Recognition and Adoption. 15. The Damages Agenda of the 1950s.