The focus of the essays in this book is on the relationship between compensation culture, social values, and tort damages for personal injuries. A central concern of the public and political perception of personal injuries claims is the high cost of tort claims to society, reflected in insurance premiums, often accompanied by an assumption that tort law and practice is flawed and improperly raising such costs. The aim of this collection is to clarify the relationship between tort damages for personal injuries and the social values that the law seeks to reflect and to balance, then to...