Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Liability

In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the "politics of efficiency," or reform that is aimed at eliminating waste from existing policies and programs. After all, reducing inefficiency promises to reduce costs without cutting benefits, which should appeal to members of both political parties, especially given tight budgetary constraints in...

This book examines society's responses to many kinds of experimentation, focusing on both creation of and assessment of risks. As people seek new ways to make their lives safer and happier, the widespread process of experimentation claims victims. Some of these are people who directly and willingly accept the risks of experiments. By comparison, some are effectively experimental subjects in the hands of others who often may not even think of themselves as experimenting with the lives of consumers.

The Experimental Society covers a wide spectrum of products and activities,...

Im Rahmen eines funktionalen Rechtsvergleichs analysiert die Arbeit, welche prozessualen Mechanismen beide Rechtsordnungen zur effizienten Bewältigung von Massenverfahren bereitstellen. Im ersten Teil untersucht sie allgemeine prozessuale Regelungen, Verfahren zu bündeln, Entscheidungen auf parallele Fälle auszuweiten und...

Nach deutschem Rechtsverständnis können Prozessführungsverbote und Schadensersatzansprüche nur bestehen, wenn die Schiedsvereinbarung eine Pflicht statuiert, Klagen vor staatlichen Gerichten...

Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001.

From its beginning late in the nineteenth century, the availability of liability insurance led to the creation of new forms of liability, heavily influenced expansion of the liabilities that already existed, and continually promoted increases in the amount of money that was awarded in tort suits. A "liability-and-insurance spiral" emerged, in which the availability...