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Reforming Products Liability

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Description for Reforming Products Liability Hardback. With million-dollar awards for seemingly frivolous claims and inadequate settlements for serious injuries, the liability crisis may adversely affect product innovation and deprive customers of safer goods. Viscusi analyzes the crisis, diagnoses the causes and assesses the value of reform policies. Num Pages: 287 pages, 8 line drawings, 44 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.

The current products liability crisis is both familiar and puzzling: million-dollar awards for apparently frivolous claims, inadequate settlements for thousands of people with severe injuries, skyrocketing insurance premiums, an overburdened judicial system. The adverse effects of this crisis on product innovation may be particularly detrimental to the extent that they deprive consumers of newer and safer goods. W. Kip Viscusi offers the first comprehensive and objective analysis of the crisis. He employs extensive, original empirical data to diagnose the causes and to assess the merits of alternative reform policies.

Drawing on both liability insurance trends and litigation patterns, Viscusi ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674753235
SKU
V9780674753235
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-14

About W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi is George G. Allen Professor of Economics at Duke University and Associate Reporter on the American Law Institute tort liability reform project.

Reviews for Reforming Products Liability
Kip Viscusi presents a careful and compelling indictment of the modern system of product liability law, which skillfully weaves together economic theory, legal doctrine, and statistical and anecdotal evidence. The book should become a standard reference for readers in all relevant disciplines who are interested in the pros and cons of product liability reform.
Richard A. Epstein, University of ... Read more

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