Add to ORKGWhile the last several years have witnessed significant change in the field of tort law, viewed as advancement by some and regression by others, 1985 was a relatively stable year, at least in the courtroom. With a sometimes real, sometimes imagined, crisis in the liability insurance field, the drive to change, reform, improve, and re-package the law of civil wrongs has been in full swing. A myriad of legislative proposals followed a continued public debate, fueled by high pressure advertising campaigns, about the societal cost of the common law tort system. Local governments threatened to close parks and police departments; doctors issued their perennial warnings about the looming shortage of practitioners, all of the good ones supposedly h...
The rise of legislation has profoundly affected all areas of the law in the major common law jurisdi...
As Professor Michael Green\u27s comments trenchantly remind us, all of this has a familiar ring: ins...
In the modern tort reform movement that dates to the mid-1970s, courts have struck down a number of ...
While the last several years have witnessed significant change in the field of tort law, viewed as a...
For over thirty years, repeat players on the defense side of tort litigation have undertaken to ref...
There are good reasons that the reform of tort law has commanded the extraordinary attention it has ...
In 1960, progressive members of the state judiciary, joined later by the American Law Institute, com...
This Symposium convenes at an important moment in the history of modern tort reform. The helpful leg...
The 20th century witnessed enormous change in American personal injury law. Over the past 100 years,...
Most of the tort cases during the survey period do not involve any significant changes in the law. M...
Twenty years ago, Deborah Hensler and a team of scholars at the RAND Corporation\u27s Institute for ...
In 2002 the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments reacted to a 'crisis' over the availabilit...
The medical liability environment during the first few years of the 21st Century has been frequently...
This articles discusses trends in tort cases in 1957, including adequate awards, avaition law, jury ...
A bullet in the head of products liability reform. Thus did a lobbyist orally characterize our arti...
The rise of legislation has profoundly affected all areas of the law in the major common law jurisdi...
As Professor Michael Green\u27s comments trenchantly remind us, all of this has a familiar ring: ins...
In the modern tort reform movement that dates to the mid-1970s, courts have struck down a number of ...
While the last several years have witnessed significant change in the field of tort law, viewed as a...
For over thirty years, repeat players on the defense side of tort litigation have undertaken to ref...
There are good reasons that the reform of tort law has commanded the extraordinary attention it has ...
In 1960, progressive members of the state judiciary, joined later by the American Law Institute, com...
This Symposium convenes at an important moment in the history of modern tort reform. The helpful leg...
The 20th century witnessed enormous change in American personal injury law. Over the past 100 years,...
Most of the tort cases during the survey period do not involve any significant changes in the law. M...
Twenty years ago, Deborah Hensler and a team of scholars at the RAND Corporation\u27s Institute for ...
In 2002 the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments reacted to a 'crisis' over the availabilit...
The medical liability environment during the first few years of the 21st Century has been frequently...
This articles discusses trends in tort cases in 1957, including adequate awards, avaition law, jury ...
A bullet in the head of products liability reform. Thus did a lobbyist orally characterize our arti...
The rise of legislation has profoundly affected all areas of the law in the major common law jurisdi...
As Professor Michael Green\u27s comments trenchantly remind us, all of this has a familiar ring: ins...
In the modern tort reform movement that dates to the mid-1970s, courts have struck down a number of ...