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Ensuring Corporate Misconduct
Baker, Tom; Griffith, Sean J.
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Description for Ensuring Corporate Misconduct
Hardcover. Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. This book demonstrates how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: KFFN; LNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal and many of last year's corporate financial meltdowns. "Ensuring Corporate Misconduct" demonstrates for the first time how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws. As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith demonstrate, this need not be the case. Opening up the formerly closed world of corporate insurance, the ... Read more
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal and many of last year's corporate financial meltdowns. "Ensuring Corporate Misconduct" demonstrates for the first time how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws. As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith demonstrate, this need not be the case. Opening up the formerly closed world of corporate insurance, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226035154
SKU
V9780226035154
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99-15
About Baker, Tom; Griffith, Sean J.
Tom Baker is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including The Medical Malpractice Myth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Sean J. Griffith is the T. J. Maloney Professor of Business Law at Fordham University.
Reviews for Ensuring Corporate Misconduct
"This is an extraordinary book, written in a clear and readable style. Until now, those of us in the field had reasons for concern about litigation dynamics and the role of insurance, but no real evidence.... More than any contribution to the field of corporate litigation in the last decade, this book breaks new ground." - Donald C. Langevoort, Georgetown ... Read more