Compensating and preventing damage: is there any future left for tort law?
October 2006
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Europe is witnessing an ongoing debate amongst scholars, practitioners, and policy makers on the need for tort reform, especially with regard to the field of personal injury. Although the call for reform has not been voiced as distinctly as in the United States of America, there is a growing number of incidents that points towards a central question for European tort law scholars: is there any future left for tort law when it comes to compensating and pre-venting death and personal injury?
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- tort law
- system
- compensation
- tortfeasor
- insurance
- injury
- incentive
- damage
- victim
- liability
- accident
- event
- research
- future
- alternative
- liability insurance market
- european
- claim
- alternative compensation schemes
- tort system
