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...

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 ...

Medical liability coverage has become increasingly expensive and scarce since 2001, especially for obstetrics and other high-risk specialties. Physicians, whose own fees are constrained, see this as a crisis needing tort reform to cap payouts. Plaintiffs' lawyers fight caps; they blame insurance trends and call for stronger regulation of insurers and physicians. Doctors' arguments are somewhat ...

Article Response of the European Law Institute to Public Consultation on Civil Liability – Adapting Rules Digital Age and Artificial Intelligence was published April 1, 2022 in journal Journal Tort (volume 13, issue 1).

This Article considers the broad range of "tort experiments" states have undertaken in recent years, as well as the changing attitudes of Congress and the Supreme Court toward state tort law. Notably, while states have limited tort rights and remedies in the products liability and personal injury areas in recent years, they have at the same time increased tort rights and remedies to address new...

This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was filed average $35,000 per claim in 2004$, which corresponds to a share of 0.18 of total expenditures. Claims with higher stakes and complexity lead to greater reliance on out...