Toward a new history of American accident law: Classical tort law and the cooperative first-party insurance movement

Harvard Law Review

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 692-

  Witt, John Fabian ^a  

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EID: 0042692973     PISSN: 0017811X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1342697     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. See, e.g., George L. Priest, The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law, 96 YALE L.J. 1521, 1550-63 (1987) [hereinafter Priest, Current Insurance Crisis] (arguing that the source of the "liability crisis" of the late 19803 was the shift from first-party insurance to third-party insurance); George L. Priest, Understanding the Liability Crisis, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW 196, 207-09 (Walter Olson ed., 1988) (same); see also Patrick Atiyah, Personal Injuries in the Twenty- First Century: Thinking the Unthinkable, in WRONGS AND REMEDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1, 33-46 (Peter Birks ed., 1996) (advocating the replacement of tort for personal injury with market mechanisms, primarily first-party insurance).
2. See, e.g., George L. Priest, The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law, 96 YALE L.J. 1521, 1550-63 (1987) [hereinafter Priest, Current Insurance Crisis] (arguing that the source of the "liability crisis" of the late 19803 was the shift from first-party insurance to third-party insurance); George L. Priest, Understanding the Liability Crisis, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW 196, 207-09 (Walter Olson ed., 1988) (same); see also Patrick Atiyah, Personal Injuries in the Twenty- First Century: Thinking the Unthinkable, in WRONGS AND REMEDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1, 33-46 (Peter Birks ed., 1996) (advocating the replacement of tort for personal injury with market mechanisms, primarily first-party insurance).
3. See, e.g., George L. Priest, The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law, 96 YALE L.J. 1521, 1550-63 (1987) [hereinafter Priest, Current Insurance Crisis] (arguing that the source of the "liability crisis" of the late 19803 was the shift from first-party insurance to third-party insurance); George L. Priest, Understanding the Liability Crisis, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW 196, 207-09 (Walter Olson ed., 1988) (same); see also Patrick Atiyah, Personal Injuries in the Twenty- First Century: Thinking the Unthinkable, in WRONGS AND REMEDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1, 33-46 (Peter Birks ed., 1996) (advocating the replacement of tort for personal injury with market mechanisms, primarily first-party insurance).
4. See, e.g., George L. Priest, The Current Insurance Crisis and Modern Tort Law, 96 YALE L.J. 1521, 1550-63 (1987) [hereinafter Priest, Current Insurance Crisis] (arguing that the source of the "liability crisis" of the late 19803 was the shift from first-party insurance to third-party insurance); George L. Priest, Understanding the Liability Crisis, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW 196, 207-09 (Walter Olson ed., 1988) (same); see also Patrick Atiyah, Personal Injuries in the Twenty-First Century: Thinking the Unthinkable, in WRONGS AND REMEDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 1, 33-46 (Peter Birks ed., 1996) (advocating the replacement of tort for personal injury with market mechanisms, primarily first-party insurance).
5. See ROBERT E. KEETON & JEFFREY O'CONNELL, BASIC PROTECTION FOR THE TRAFFIC VICTIM: A BLUEPRINT FOR REFORMING AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE (1965).
6. See Robert Cooter & Stephen D. Sugarman, A Regulated Market in Unmatured Tort Claims: Tort Reform by Contract, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW, supra note 1, at 174. For a critical review of contract-based proposals for reforming American accident law, see Mark Geistfeld, The Political Economy of Neocontractual Proposals for Products Liability Reform, 72 TEX. L. REV. 803 (1994).
7. See Robert Cooter & Stephen D. Sugarman, A Regulated Market in Unmatured Tort Claims: Tort Reform by Contract, in NEW DIRECTIONS IN LIABILITY LAW, supra note 1, at 174. For a critical review of contract-based proposals for reforming American accident law, see Mark Geistfeld, The Political Economy of Neocontractual Proposals for Products Liability Reform, 72 TEX. L. REV. 803 (1994).
8. SEE, E.G., STEPHEN D. SUGARMAN, DOING AWAY WITH PERSONAL INJURY LAW (1989); Richard L. Abel, A Critique of Torts, 37 UCLA L. REV. 785, 822-25 (1990); Marc A. Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. 774, 808-14 (1967).
9. SEE, E.G., STEPHEN D. SUGARMAN, DOING AWAY WITH PERSONAL INJURY LAW (1989); Richard L. Abel, A Critique of Torts, 37 UCLA L. REV. 785, 822-25 (1990); Marc A. Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. 774, 808-14 (1967).
10. SEE, E.G., STEPHEN D. SUGARMAN, DOING AWAY WITH PERSONAL INJURY LAW (1989); Richard L. Abel, A Critique of Torts, 37 UCLA L. REV. 785, 822-25 (1990); Marc A. Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. 774, 808-14 (1967).