Wagner Tort Law and Liability Insurance

2005
ISBN: 978-3-211-30631-4
Verlag: Springer Wien
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 361 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Tort and Insurance Law

Among scholars as well as practitioners it is taken for granted that liability insurance and liability in tort interrelate in many ways. In fact, insurance carriers are major players in the area of claims for damages. In striking contrast to common beliefs among lawyers, the law still maintains that there is no connection between liability issues and insurance matters, i.e. that both belong to different worlds which must be kept separate. The question is: Who is right? Is it true what countless decisions say, i.e. that there is no normative connection between the liability and the insurance issues? This volume tests the two suppositions against reality. It brings together reports from a number of European jurisdictions which all address the question whether the separateness principle is a mere façade for the courts to hide their real motives or in fact a close approximation of legal reality. The book also addresses the issue from an economic point of view, exploring the issues with the help of the analytical tools of price theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Gerhard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Questionnaire.- Country Reports.- Tort Liability and Insurance: Country Report Austria.- The Relationship Between Tort Law and Insurance in England and Wales.- Tort Liability and Insurance: German Report.- Tort Liability and Insurance: Italy.- Liability in Tort and Liability Insurance: Sweden.- Switzerland.- General Approaches.- The Need for More and Detailed Information.- The View from Abroad: Tort Law and Liability Insurance in the United States.- The View from Law and Economics.- The View of an Insurer: The Impact of Liability Insurance on Tort Law.- The View of a Reinsurer: On the Relationship between Liability Insurance and Tort Law.- The View of an American Insurance Law Scholar: Six Ways that Liability Insurance Shapes Tort Law.- Comparative Report and Final Conclusions.- Tort Liability and Insurance: Comparative Report and Final Conclusions.