The authors discuss posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a basis for personal injury litigation. Three case examples raise issues related to: (1) the controversy surrounding expansion of tort liability, (2) the courtroom use of psychiatric nomenclature as represented in the DSM (e.g., PTSD), and (3) ethical concerns regarding psychiatric expert witnesses. Psychiatrists became easy targets wh...

This paper summarizes liability and compensation concerns surrounding the smallpox vaccination program announced by President Bush on December 13, 2002. The paper examines the nature of adverse health events that are likely to occur in connection with the smallpox vaccine, assesses the liability protections that have been established for organizations and individuals participating in the vaccin...

This study examines the impact of malpractice reforms on physician behavior using a new measure of liability risk and a nationally representative, individuallevel data set on physician behavior. We match our liability measure to data on physician behavior from the Physician Practice Costs and Income Survey (PPCIS). Data from the PPCIS bracket a period of substantial state-level legal reform bet...

Abstract Can claimants choose between contract and tort claims arising on the same facts with different jurisdictional and/or choice-of-law consequences? While domestic legal systems generally recognise concurrent liability, commentators object that its extension to private international law would be unprincipled threaten field's values. This, however, contrasts position in common under EU Regu...

Article J-S Borghetti/S Whittaker (eds), French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Hart 2019). 521 pp. ISBN 978-1-5099-2727-2. £ 90.00 (hardback). was published on September 1, 2021 the journal Journal of European Tort Law (volume 12, issue 2).

In the Serbian literature issue of overlap between contractual and liability in tort has been thoroughly discussed. The majority references state that differences two regimes outweigh their common features, thus separate sets rules should exist governing each. There are authors who claim not such significance so as make integral concept for damage senseless, hence they support idea regulating b...