This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are addressed. The first …-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential … injurers (because they may have to pay judgments to victims). In this regard, victims' accident insurance and injurers …

provided more efficiently through other forms of social or private insurance. In theory, a negligence rule creates incentives … physicians is sued per year. These discrepancies between the theory and actual operation of the negligence system arise primarily …