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 …

In a recent article, Guerra et al. (2022c) considered the problem of liability for accidents caused by the activity of … robots, proposing a novel liability regime, which they referred to as ‘manufacturer’s residual liability.’ Under this regime … diligently), and third-party robot manufacturers bear all remaining accident losses, even when the accident is not caused by a …

The first objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate regarding the desirability of the sharing of liability … for the accident loss. The second objective is to extend the efficiency analysis beyond Shavell (1980, 1987) and Miceli … (1997), to search for the second-best liability rules. [WP no. 150]. …