Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Joint tortfeasors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joint and Several Liability
Joint and Several Liability
Author: Warren Freedman
Publisher: MICHIE
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This volume includes coverage of settlement practices, indemnification agtreements, comparative negligence theories, uniform laws and the recent movement for tort reform. Chapters are devoted to products liability, medical malpractice, insurance and environmental protection.
Publisher: MICHIE
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This volume includes coverage of settlement practices, indemnification agtreements, comparative negligence theories, uniform laws and the recent movement for tort reform. Chapters are devoted to products liability, medical malpractice, insurance and environmental protection.
Joint Obligations
Author: Glanville Llewelyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"This book discusses a difficult and seriously defective part of the common law. Considering its practical importance, the subject of joint promises has received surprisingly little attention. Noting is commoner than for a contractual promise to be made by more than one party; yet the rules relating to joint promises are accorded little space in the English textbooks on contract, even where they are not entirely ignored. Partial expositions are to be found in works on partnership, bankruptcy, suretyship, negotiable instruments, executors, and procedure, but there is no modern monograph devoted to the subject as a whole. It is hoped that the present work will fill this gap." -- from the author's Preface, p. 3.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"This book discusses a difficult and seriously defective part of the common law. Considering its practical importance, the subject of joint promises has received surprisingly little attention. Noting is commoner than for a contractual promise to be made by more than one party; yet the rules relating to joint promises are accorded little space in the English textbooks on contract, even where they are not entirely ignored. Partial expositions are to be found in works on partnership, bankruptcy, suretyship, negotiable instruments, executors, and procedure, but there is no modern monograph devoted to the subject as a whole. It is hoped that the present work will fill this gap." -- from the author's Preface, p. 3.
Feasibility Investigation of Joint and Several Liability
Author: Great Britain. Law Commission. Common Law Team
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780115154522
Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Feasibility and Investigation of Joint and Several Liability
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780115154522
Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Feasibility and Investigation of Joint and Several Liability
Joint and Several Liability
Joint and Several Liability in EU Competition Law
Author: Katarzyna Sadrak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839312
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The first comprehensive analysis of contribution claims in EU competition law, a controversial but little studied topic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839312
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The first comprehensive analysis of contribution claims in EU competition law, a controversial but little studied topic.
Multi-defendant Settlements
Author: Lewis A. Kornhauser
Publisher:
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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Joint and Several Liability
Author: California Continuing Education of the Bar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liability (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liability (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Joint & Several Liability
N-Defendant Litigation and Settlement
Author: Lewis A. Kornhauser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This article generalizes the analysis of settlement under joint and several liability from lawsuits involving one plaintiff and two defendants to those involving namp;≥2 defendants. We demonstrate that, depending upon the correlation of outcomes among the defendants, but regardless of the distribution of liability shares, joint and several liability may encourage plaintiffs to select some defendants for litigation while settling with those remaining. In particular, under joint and several liability, when each defendant is grouped with others sharing correlated outcomes, and the plaintiff's probability of success against any defendant is sufficiently high, we show that, in all Nash equilibrium, the plaintiff litigates against the defendant from each group with the smallest share and settles with all other defendants. There are a continuum of equilibria but they are all payoff-equivalent up to permutation. Plaintiff's payoff is identical in all equilibria; only the payoffs of the members with the smallest share within a group are permuted. We also show that, for sufficiently high plaintiff's probability of success, this result holds even when the defendants are allowed to form coalitions, and derive the set of offers in the behaviorally unique coalition proof Nash equilibrium; as before, these offers induce litigation against the defendant with the smallest share in each group and settlement with all other defendants.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This article generalizes the analysis of settlement under joint and several liability from lawsuits involving one plaintiff and two defendants to those involving namp;≥2 defendants. We demonstrate that, depending upon the correlation of outcomes among the defendants, but regardless of the distribution of liability shares, joint and several liability may encourage plaintiffs to select some defendants for litigation while settling with those remaining. In particular, under joint and several liability, when each defendant is grouped with others sharing correlated outcomes, and the plaintiff's probability of success against any defendant is sufficiently high, we show that, in all Nash equilibrium, the plaintiff litigates against the defendant from each group with the smallest share and settles with all other defendants. There are a continuum of equilibria but they are all payoff-equivalent up to permutation. Plaintiff's payoff is identical in all equilibria; only the payoffs of the members with the smallest share within a group are permuted. We also show that, for sufficiently high plaintiff's probability of success, this result holds even when the defendants are allowed to form coalitions, and derive the set of offers in the behaviorally unique coalition proof Nash equilibrium; as before, these offers induce litigation against the defendant with the smallest share in each group and settlement with all other defendants.