Catherine Sharkey, ‘Insurance as Safety Regulator’

“… The study of tort law in the modern administrative state increasingly entails a comparative institutional account of private common law versus public agency control in terms of satisfying the goals of compensation and regulation of safety risks. I would go so far as to say that the future of tort law and scholarship belongs to those who tackle complex health and safety issues by integrating concepts and doctrines drawn from public administrative law and private tort law. Ben-Shahar and Logue make a major contribution by adding the third dimension of insurance …” (more)

Catherine Sharkey, JOTWELL 9 October 2012, commenting on Omri Ben-Shahar & Kyle D. Logue, ‘Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard’, 111 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2012) available at SSRN.

First posted 2012-10-09 13:10:35

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