Reforming Products Liability

by W. Kip Viscusi

The current products liability crisis is both familiar and puzzling: million-dollar awards for apparently frivolous claims, inadequate settlements for thousands of people with severe injuries, skyrocketing insurance premiums, an overburdened judicial system. The adverse effects of this crisis on product innovation may be particularly detrimental to the extent that they deprive consumers of newer and safer goods. W. Kip Viscusi offers the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674753232
• ISBN13: 9780674753235
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"