The fifth edition of Lunney and Oliphant's market-leading tort law text provides a complete, authoritative guide to the subject. The book combines clear overviews of the law with well-chosen extracts from cases and materials supported by insightful commentary.
Selected texts from national civil codes, other legislative enactments, and leading cases in European countries.
This comprehensive guide offers a thorough exploration of tort law, blending clear legal overviews with selected case extracts and insightful commentary. The seventh edition ensures an authoritative resource for understanding the complexities of tort law, making it suitable for both students and practitioners.
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This large-scale comparative study analyzes the primary mechanisms in modern legal systems for addressing occupational illness and injury: employers' liability and workers' compensation. It offers a detailed examination of these systems in twelve countries, exploring their complex legal frameworks, interactions with social institutions, and coordination through private international law. The study identifies and assesses current international trends while highlighting fundamental political issues. Its goals extend beyond mere description, aiming to determine how compensation and liability systems can be adapted to meet societal needs in the 21st century. Countries covered include Australia, Austria, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and the United States. The book concludes with three essays addressing broader themes: the European coordination of employers' liability and workers' compensation, the evolving landscape of work injury claims, and new perspectives on basic policy issues related to employers' liability.
The topic is of particular interest for insurers as compensation for loss of housekeeping capacity is one of the main heads of damages awarded for personal injury. Naturally it also has considerable importance for accident victims. Yet it has received relatively little scholarly attention, at least from a comparative perspective. The aim of this study is to examine national approaches to the award of damages under the head of loss of housekeeping capacity, and to compare the levels of damages so awarded. The research will therefore address both the concepts employed in different national systems and, by means of practical case studies, the compensation actually paid in individual cases. The results of the research comprise ten country reports (Austria, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) based on a Questionnaire (Part I: General Part and Doctrine, Part II: Concrete Assessment Examples) and a concluding Comparative Report. This project, „Loss of Housekeeping Capacity“, was undertaken at the request of the Swiss Insurance Association.