Mass torts in a world of settlement / Richard A. Nagareda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagareda, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torts--United States.

Torts.

Class actions (Civil procedure)--United States.

Class actions (Civil procedure).

Complex litigation--United States.

Complex litigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos, cigarettes, guns, the diet drug fen-phen, breast implants, and, most recently, Vioxx. Richard A. Nagareda's Mass Torts in a World of Settlement is the first attempt to analyze the lawyer's role in this world of high-stakes, multibillion-dollar litigation.These mass s

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Origins

Chapter 2. The Development of a Mass Tort

Chapter 3. Regulating Development Indirectly

Chapter 4. Making and Enforcing a Grid

Chapter 5. The Rise and Fall of the Mass Tort Class Settlement

Chapter 6. Public Legislation and Private Contracts

Chapter 7. Mandatory Class Actions Revisited

Chapter 8. Maximizing or Minimizing Opt- Outs

Chapter 9. Bankruptcy Transformed

Chapter 10. Government as Plaintiff

Chapter 11. Leveraging Conflicts of Interest

Chapter 12. Administering the Leveraging Proposal

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-317) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966034

9781281966032

1281966037

9780226567624

0226567621

OCLC:

436148347