Damages in the economic torts

Economic Damages Under House Bill 393

David G. Tucek INTRODUCTION The 2005 Missouri General Assembly adopted House Bill 393 This paper focuses on parts of House Bill 393 that are likely to change the manner in which economists calculate damages or which will have other impacts on their relationships with the court and with attorneys. In some instances the bill is unclear about how damages should be calculated, and the authors revie...

An Exploration of "Non-economic" Damages in Civil Jury Awards

The Future of Mass Torts

The Future of Mass Torts

In the world of mass torts, asbestos and pollution are the best known and clearly the largest to date, with $29 billion and $30 billion (respectively) of incurred losses as of year-end 1998 for the U.S. insurance industry. Can another mass tort of comparable size arise in the future? The authors argue that, while it is possible, such a large loss is unlikely. This is due to factors that are lik...

Eutrophication of U.S. freshwaters: analysis of potential economic damages.

Human-induced eutrophication degrades freshwater systems worldwide by reducing water quality and altering ecosystem structure and function. We compared current total nitrogen (TN) and phosphorus (TP) concentrations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nutrient ecoregions with estimated reference conditions. In all nutrient ecoregions, current median TN and TP values for rivers and lakes...