Introduction; PART I: The Insurance Rationale for Tort Liability in Legal Theory; One: The Early History of the Insurance Rationale; Two: Emergence of a General Insurance Rationale: The Triumph of Legal Realism; Three: The Insurance Rationale Decried: The Theoretical Underpinnings of the Current Movement for Tort Reform; Four: The Role of Insurance in Tort Liability: Some Preliminary Lessons from Scholarship; PART II: The Insurance Rationale for Tort Liability in Practice; Five: Judicial and Legislative Approaches to the Insurance Rationale
Summary
The debate over the structure of tort law and victim compensation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-241) and index
