Who Pays for Car Accidents?: The Fault Versus No-Fault Insurance Debate

by Stephen Chippendale, Jerry J. Phillips, Estate of Jerry J. Phillips

In this new volume, two lawyers debate which kind of automobile insurance is the best, no-fault or tort liability. This book presents in one place all the legal, political, historical, and financial arguments about the two types of auto insurance. Under the fault system currently used by thirty-seven states, tort law provides that the party at fault in the accident pays the full damages of accident victims. Jerry J. Phillips favors this system, arguing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878408878
• ISBN13: 9780878408870
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher