Understanding Enterprise Liability: Rethinking Tort Reform for the Twenty-First Century
- ISBN-10
- 1566392306
- ISBN-13
- 9781566392303
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Authors
- Edmund Ursin, Virginia Nolan
Description
Tort reformers commonly equate "enterprise liability" with strict products liability and other expansive tort developments of recent decades. Damages reform and no-fault alternatives are, in turn, seen as a repudiation of a failed theory of enterprise liability. In contrast, the authors demonstrate that both strict product liability and no-fault compensation plans are a product of the enterprise liability theory first articulated early in this century by Leon Green and Karl Llewellyn. As the theory of enterprise liability matured, damages reform became an integral part of the enterprise liability agenda, establishing that both no-fault and damages reform are an aspect, not a repudiation, of enterprise liability theory.
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