Environmental Stigma Damages: Speculative Damages in Environmental Tort Cases

Environmental Citizen Suits with Pigovian Punitive Damages

Federal environmental laws encourage private citizens to act like "private attorney generals" and to sue a firm. This citizen group competes over the rewards of levels of regulation and enforcement. The firm can reduce its output to curtail the likelihood of losing the contest. This paper explores whether one can combine citizen suits with Pigovian punitive damages to equate private and social ...

Regulation with Anticipated Learning about Environmental Damages∗

A regulator anticipates learning about the relation between environmental stocks and economic damages. For a model with linear-quadratic costs and a general learning process, we show analytically that anticipated learning decreases the optimal level of abatement at a given information set. If learning causes the regulator to eventually decide that damages are higher than previously thought, lea...

Book Review: Cases on Damages

Impact from Texas Tort Law on Damages Recovered

This paper looks at Texas tort law reform to make claims regarding the relationship between Texas tort reform and damages recovered. Starting with reform in 1977, Texas has passed 15 pieces of legislation that, in principle, restrict the damages plaintiffs recover. Most empirical analyses have focused primarily on analyzing behavior resulting from the tort reform. In other cases, research has l...

Challenges of Compensation Lawsuits for Environmental Damages Caused by Biotechnology Products

Background and Aim: Advances in genetic engineering and modern biotechnology, through which a new state is produced or modified by making changes in a living organism, however, the unfamiliarity of biotechnological aspects and effects can cause damages to the environment, while the claim for such damages necessitates filing a lawsuit by the aggrieved party in the competent authority against the...