Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. The Dawn of a New Era 2. The Original Tort Reform: Workers Compensation 3. Drivers, Lawyers, and Insurers: A Costly Combination 4. Medical Malpractice Liability and the Health Insurance System: The Physicians' Dilemma 5. Products Liability, Environmental Liability, and the Long Tail 6. Which Came First, the Liability or the Insurance? 7. Collateral Sources, Mega-Liability, and the Stresses of 9/11 8. Recurring Themes, Sobering Constraints Notes Index

Promotional Information

In demonstrating the complex interactions between tort and insurance, The Liability Century makes an important contribution to our understanding of two reciprocally-related and very important institutions in our legal landscape. -- James A. Henderson, Jr., Cornell Law School The Liability Century should have a major impact on how legal scholars and lawyers think about the relationship between liability and insurance. It pulls together in one readable and coherent volume a history of the relationship between liability and liability insurance and then raises a series of deceptively simple questions that follow from the realization that, as Abraham puts it, tort and insurance are a bipolar star. Nothing like it has been written, ever. I rank it as among the most significant books in the tort and insurance field. -- Tom Baker, University of Connecticut Law School

About the Author

Kenneth S. Abraham is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia.

Reviews

In demonstrating the complex interactions between tort and insurance, The Liability Century makes an important contribution to our understanding of two reciprocally-related and very important institutions in our legal landscape. -- James A. Henderson, Jr., Cornell Law School
The Liability Century should have a major impact on how legal scholars and lawyers think about the relationship between liability and insurance. It pulls together in one readable and coherent volume a history of the relationship between liability and liability insurance and then raises a series of deceptively simple questions that follow from the realization that, as Abraham puts it, tort and insurance are a bipolar star. Nothing like it has been written, ever. I rank it as among the most significant books in the tort and insurance field. -- Tom Baker, University of Connecticut Law School
[A] seminal book on tort liability and insurance systems. [Abraham] systematically outlines the interdependency of the tort liability system and the insurance industry in the U.S. during the 20th century, including the impact of September 11, 2001. -- R. A. Carp * Choice *