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 …

Accident law is the body of legal rules governing the ability of victims of harm to sue and to collect payments from … those who injured them. This paper contains the chapters on accident law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of … liability rules on incentives to reduce accident risks. Then consideration of accident law is broadened (chapter 5) to reflect …

Accident law is the body of legal rules governing the ability of victims of harm to sue and to collect payments from … those who injured them. This paper contains the chapters on accident law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of … liability rules on incentives to reduce accident risks. Then consideration of accident law is broadened (chapter 5) to reflect …

economic theory to address this issue. We find that the relation between the appropriate compensation and the mean and median …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …