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 …' liability insurance are taken into account. The third general aspect of accident liability is its administrative expense …

Physicians are traditionally liable under a negligence rule of liability. Economic analysis of liability rules …, including malpractice, assumes that the primary function of liability is injury prevention (deterrence). Compensation can be … provided more efficiently through other forms of social or private insurance. In theory, a negligence rule creates incentives …

covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …