Liability and Insurance and Their Influence on Safety Management of Industrial Operations and Products
Journal of Risk Research: Special Issue on Liability and Insurance and their Influence on Safety Management of Industrial Operations and Products, Michael Baram (ed.), Vol. 17, No. 5 (2014); Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-52
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-52
Posted: 5 Oct 2014
Date Written: October 3, 2014
Abstract
This issue of the Journal of Risk Research features the Introduction and six papers presented at an international workshop held in October 2012 under the auspices of the Foundation for Industrial Safety in Toulouse, France. The contents include: Introduction, Michael Baram; The Complementary Roles of Liability and Insurance and their Influence in Safety Management Theory and Practice, Michael Faure; Soft Law Mechanisms for Nanotechnology, Gary Marchant; On the Joint Use of Safety Regulation and Civil Liability to Promote Safe Management of Hazardous Operations, Pierre Bentata; Regulation of Risk Management of Medical Devices and the Role of Litigation; Bastien de Mol; Accident Causation Models, Management and the Law, Patrick Hudson; Liability, Blame and Causation in Norwegian Risk Regulation, Jacob Kringen.
Keywords: tort law, litigation, deterrence, risk regulation, compliance, soft law, liability, insurance, voluntary standards, causation, attribution, safety management, industrial accidents, accident investigation, medical devices, nanotechnology, petroleum industry
JEL Classification: K13, K19, K32, K39
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