The Covid-19 pandemic has cost human lives and threaten the world’s economy. Responding to this unprecedented history, governments are expected take both public health economic recovery actions. This article conveys analysis on how Indonesian courts might examine government tort cases government’s liability in handling pandemic. A normative juridical method is used analyze primary secondary leg...

recovery. Rules of tort liability mediate between the victim's need for recompense and the defendant's right to remain free from arbitrarily imposed obligation. Although sensational cases involving large recoveries tend to generate the greatest alarm, the magnitude of damages in a particular case is actually far less important than the availability of any damages in similar cases. Potential tor...

This paper studies the effects of allocation rules on the stability of mass tort class actions. I analyze a two-stage model in which a defendant faces multiple plaintiffs with heterogeneous damage claims. In stage 1, the plaintiffs play a noncooperative coalition formation game. In stage 2, the class action and any individual actions by opt-out plaintiffs are litigated or settled. I examine how...

1 As a preliminary remark, we need to mention that the rules of tort law apply equally to both adults and children. Indeed, children can be liable under the general rules of tort law provided by artt. 2043 et seq. of the Italian civil code (Codice civile, c.c.), since no minimum age has been fixed by the legislature as a condition for liability. However, courts have progressively adapted these ...

It is common to hear claims that tort law is undermining the ability of America to grow economically. Tort liability imposes costs on businesses, who complain about its detrimental effects on investment and innovation. While many of these reports are anecdotal, or even false, there is growing evidence on the economic effect of tort law. Tort reform proposals are pressed, and often passed, on th...

background: lidocaine is a local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic agent. there are reports on accidental and intentional cases of poisoning following injection of lidocaine while rare are the fatal cases realized after oral ingestion of lidocaine. suicidal poisoning with lidocaine pharmaceutical formulations is rare since no pharmaceutical dosage forms for oral use are available except gels and sp...