plaintiffs, have faced an increasing number of large-dollar liability claims centered on the aggregate settlement rule: that is …

Following the first oil crisis, France launched the world’s largest ever nuclear energy program, commissioning 58 new … reactors. These reactors are now reaching 40 years of age, the end of their technological lifetime. This places France at an … optimization model, calibrated for France. Then we use it to study 27 retrofit strategies for all combinations of uncertain …

Civil liability of rating agencies has to strike a balance between over-deterrence and overly lax behavior control. The … or liability caps …

systems of regulation and liability operate complementarily. The question is why two legal tools that are meant to achieve and …-marketing surveillance duties, and ex-post facto liability, linked to the pre-marketing available knowledge. Since the key issue in both … regulatory and liability assessments related to pharmaceuticals is the one of “relevant knowledge”, we claim that the legal …

would instead randomly select one of the firm's sources of risk, determine the firm's liability at that source, and apply … that outcome perforce as determinative of liability at all of the sources. The proposal significantly reduces monitoring …