Insurance against liability for damage arising from emissions

Civil Liability for Environmental Damage

Protecting nature and preserving its health is emphasized by different religions and human mind. Enjoying a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. Any damage to the environment requires compensation of damages incurred, which is within the scope of civil liability. The key question here is what is the nature of civil liability for environmental damage? How does choosing the right nat...

Liability and liability insurance for medical malpractice.

Physicians typically carry virtually complete malpractice insurance coverage. This contradicts standard theoretical predictions that under a negligence rule of liability there should be no demand for insurance, and insurance policies under moral hazard will contain co-payment provisions. It is argued that judicial 'errors' in defining negligence generate a demand for liability and legal defense...

On Liability Insurance for Automobiles

Car owners are liable for property damage inflicted on other motorists. In most countries such liability must be insured by law. That law may favor expensive or heavy vehicles, prone to suffer or inflict large losses. This paper explores links between liability rules and vehicle choice. It presumes cooperative insurance, but non-cooperative acquisition of vehicles. Thus, the Nash equilibrium an...

Liability Insurance Pricing

The goal of this article is to test whether the threat of regulating (or of more stringent regulation of) automobile liability insurance as portrayed in the popular and industry press induces insurers to change the way they price their policies. More to the point, using quarterly state data from 1984 to 1993, the author attempts to determine whether insurance companies reduced premium increases...

The Liability Insurance Crisis