Compensation for Personal Injury in English, German and Italian Law A Comparative Outline

Name: Compensation for Personal Injury in English, German and Italian Law A Comparative Outline
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ISBN: 9780521846134

ISBN-10: 0521846137

ISBN-13: 9780521846134

Edition: 2005

Authors: Basil Markesinis, Michael Coester, Guido Alpa, Augustus Ullstein, James Crawford

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Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America. Despite the growing importance of this subject, there is a dearth of material available to practitioners to assist them in advising their clients as to the heads of damage recoverable in other countries. This book aims to fill that gap by looking at the law in England, Germany and Italy. The book's introduction sets out the raw data in the wider context of tort law. The final chapter provides a closer synthesis, largely concerned with methodological…

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List price: $127.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276

Nico Schrijver holds the Chair of International Law and is Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. He is author of The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law: Inception, Meaning, and Status and Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties.



Foreword


Table of cases


Abbreviations


Preface



Introduction



General damages: non pecuniary losses



Special damages: past losses



Future pecuniary losses



Collateral sources of revenue: subrogation rights and miscellaneous matters



Comparative conclusions



Comparative tables