This very welcome and timely volume draws together the high level of expertise in the Insurance Committee of the International Bar Association's Section on Business Law. Non-lawyers, insurance and legal advisers, and academics will be equally interested in this review and analysis of the critical issues -- as brought to a head in several recent pollution disasters (such as `EXXON VALDEZ', Chernobyl and the Gulf War) -- which face the international community. Unlimited liability and insurability, serial claims, aggregate limits, cleaning up measures, multiple tort feasors, no fault liability, causality and assumptional proof, statistical proof and combined pollutors are all questions addressed by some of the leading insurance/environmental experts.
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978-1-85333-778-9 (9781853337789)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
<ol class=copymedium>Shift from Fault to No Fault Liability. Specific Laws and Statutes/Recent Developments. Multiple Tort Feasors/Combined Pollutor Theories. Causality and Assumption of Proof/Statistical Proof. The Notion of Damage Eligible for Compensation (Ecological Damage, District Court Rotterdam: Romanian Tanker, Cleaning Up Birds). Council of Europe Draft Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment. Limited Insurability of Unlimited Liability: Serial Claims, Aggregates and Alternatives. Cleaning Up Measures On/Outside the Insured Site/Insurability. Transportation of Hazardous Goods. CRTD. Treaty.
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