American Legal Commentary on the Doctrines of Municipal Tort Liability

Who Pays for Tort Liability Claims? An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Tort Liability System

Lenders Liability of Commercial Banks in Environmental Tort: Focusing on American Law

With the deterioration of the environment and increasingly seriously environmental damage, the spread of the environmental responsibility scope is one of means to respond environmental crises. The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1980 (CERCLA of US) imposed strict and joint liability to commercial banks and made them first become the main principle of...

Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary

Legal Status of Pre-Contractual Liability

The discussion about the person's liability for the actions attributable to him before the stage of contracting is a new debate that has been attracted the attention of legal circles. According to this debate, the person’s freedom of contracting does not implement the person’s freedom to ignore the rights and interest of other party. As a result, it would be possible that contracting person con...

Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice

The past few years have seen a sharp increase in premiums for medical malpractice liability insurance, which health care professionals buy to protect themselves from the costs of being sued (see Figure 1 on page 2). On average, premiums for all physicians nationwide rose by 15 percent between 2000 and 2002—nearly twice as fast as total health care spending per person. The increases during that ...