More Civil Wrongs: Personal Injury Litigation, 1901-1910

1990 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman ◽  
Thomas D. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Personal Injury ◽  
Personal Injury Litigation

Simplifying Personal Injury Litigation

The Lancet ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 331 (8596) ◽  
pp. 1236-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Brahams
Keyword(s):  
Personal Injury ◽  
Personal Injury Litigation

scholarly journals Deducting collateral benefits from damages: principle and policy

Legal Studies ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Insurance Law ◽  
Personal Injury Litigation ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Accident Victim ◽  
The Law

Schemes for compensating injury which operate alongside each other call for important policy decisions to be made concerning their inter-relationship. Are they to take account of one another and, if so, to what extent? These issues can arise in a variety of contexts. Within particular regimes they are the concern, for example, of the overlapping benefit regulations in social security law and the rules relating to contribution in insurance law. However, the focus of this article is upon personal injury litigation. It examines the policy reasons which have been used to justify the different results reached by the law when faced with the problem of ‘collateral benefits’ received by an accident victim also seeking damages. Typically, these benefits are received from the state, or an employer, or an insurer.

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