Shifts in compensation between private and public systems /
Why have some legal systems abandoned tort law in some areas and replaced it with some form of no-fault compensation scheme or strict liability? What have been the effects? How should we evaluate these "shifts" ? Why have they not been adopted in other countries? These questions have been...
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag/Wien,
c2007.
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| Series: | Tort and insurance law ;
v. 22. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing "Shifts in compensation between private and public systems" / Willem H. van Boom and Michael G. Faure
- Shifts in governance for compensation damage: a framework for analysis / Anthony Ogus
- Landmarks of no-fault in the common law / Ken Oliphant
- (Un)insurability and the choice between market insurance and public compensation systems / Gerhard Wagner
- Shifts in the compensation of medical adverse events / Rui Cascao and Ruud Hendrickx
- Shifts from liability to solidarity: the example of compensation of birth defects / Willem H. van Boom and Adrea Pinna
- International social insurance for natural disasters / Jef van Langendonck
- Policing the compensation of victims of catastrophes: combining solidarity and self-responsibility / Olivier Moreteau
- Concluding remarks.