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Alternative Approaches to Valuing the Health Impacts of Accidents: Liability Law and Prospective Evaluations
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1983)
The task of valuing accidental injuries and deaths is intrinsically difficult for two reasons. First, unlike standard consumer commodities, individual health is not traded explicitly on the market. It may be traded implicitly ...
Pain and Suffering: Damages in Search of a Sounder Rationale
(Michigan Law & Policy Review, 1996)
Compensation for non-pecuniary losses is one of the most controversial components of tort liability. Newspaper headlines routinely feature occasionally extreme awards, such as the $2.9 million award to the women who spilled ...