involved in the accident situation: victims and injurers were assumed to base their decision on e.g. the care levels to adopt … level to be followed by a defendent in a tort case and e.g. to abstain from ex post knowledge, i.e. after the accident … accident law have not been identified. That is precisely what this article aims to do. First, a few examples are presented of …

inherently accident prone activity. The accidents are chance encounters and engaging in behavior that reduces the likelihood of …

injury. The model is based on the theory of household utility maximization. The members of the household are assumed to …

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 …

expected accident loss. This paper considers situations in which each party's precaution also directly affects the other party … long as each can sue to recover its full accident losses …

and victims that operates through the effects of each on the expected accident loss. This paper considers situations in … which each party's precaution affects not only expected accident loss, but also directly affects the other party's cost of … unilateral harm (where all accident losses are borne by the victim), none of the standard tort liability rules induces socially …

Negligence rule is one of the most widely used liability rules for apportioning accident loss between victim and … injurer. Under the negligence rule the entire accident loss is borne by the injurer if he is negligent; and the entire … accident loss is borne by the victim if the injurer is nonnegligent. Injurer is negligent if his care level is less than the …