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The Liability Maze
The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation
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The Liability Maze
The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation
About this book
With an ever-increasing number of liability lawsuits, are corporations electing to play it safe rather than risk the uncertainties accompanying innovation? In The Liability Maze experts address the issues surrounding safety and innovation and present the most detailed and comprehensive study to date on the actual impact of U.S. liability law. In recent decades it has been widely assumed that liability laws promote safety by significantly raising the price companies must pay for negligence, product defects and accidents. More recently, others have suggested that the broad and unpredictable sweep of these laws actually deters innovation. The risks of lawsuits are so great that corporations are showing more caution in product innovation than ever before. The contributors focus on five sectors of the economy where the liability system appears to have had the greatest effects, positive or negative: the private aircraft, automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, and the medical profession. They suggest that in many sectors liability law has hampered innovation. In others it has stimulated safety improvements, although perhaps not so much as vigilant safety regulations.
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Yes, you can access The Liability Maze by Peter W. Huber,Robert E. Litan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Corporate Governance. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contributors
- 1. Overview
- 2. Product Liability and Medical Malpractice in Comparative Context
- 3. An Industrial Profile of the Links between Product Liability and Innovation
- 4. Product Liability and Motor Vehicle Safety
- 5. Liability, Safety, and Innovation in the Automotive Industry
- 6. Malpractice, Patient Safety, and the Ethical and Scientific Foundations of Medicine
- 7. Medical Malpractice and Its Effect on Innovation
- 8. Prescription Drug Safety and Product Liability
- 9. The Chilling Effect of Product Liability on New Drug Development
- 10. Liability, Innovation, and Safety in the Chemical Industry
- 11. The Impact of Liability on Innovation in the Chemical Industry
- 12. Product Liability and Safety in General Aviation
- 13. General Aviation Manufacturing: An Industry under Siege