Much of the medical liability debate has revolved around limiting the incentives for pursuing potentially costly litigation against physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. States have experimented with refinement of the tort systems with measures such as damage caps, joint-and-several liability rules, and statute-of-limitation restrictions with mixed success. Proponents of such m...

civil liability in electronic communications is one the most important issues of information and communications technology (ict) law. civil liability may be arisen from different causes such as copyright and trade mark infringement invasion of privacy and defamation. when discussing civil liability, two different civil liability systems may be considered: direct and indirect civil liability. in...

This paper studies the use of ex post liability to regulate unilateral accidents when injurers have (1) different probability distributions for accident damages and, as a result, different optimal levels of accident prevention effort, (2) private information about their damage distributions, and (3) liability that is limited to the injurer’s available assets. When the asset bound on liability i...

although england and the united states are both common law states and their legal systems follow the same rules, each has disregarded certain rules and changed them to suit specific circumstances. for instance, they have both disregarded the common law rule on the insertion of exemption conditions by carriers. regarding carrier’s liability towards passengers, the united states accepts the highe...

[This article focuses on accessorial liability under statute, in equity and in criminal law. One of its purposes is to identify some of the common problems that have arisen in determining the liability of accessories in different areas of civil law, whilst drawing some comparisons with the criminal law. It will be argued that the problems that need to be addressed in determining accessorial lia...