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The Effect of Bad-Faith Laws on First-Party Insurance Claims Decisions (open access)

The Effect of Bad-Faith Laws on First-Party Insurance Claims Decisions

This article describes a study of the legal distinctions among bad-faith laws and provides a theoretical foundation for the authors' hypotheses that bad-faith laws affect both economic and noneconomic damage amounts.
Date: May 13, 2010
Creator: Browne, Mark J.; Pryor, Ellen S. & Puelz, Bob
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tort Law Debate, Efficiency, and the Kingdom of the Ill: A Critique of the Insurance Theory of Compensation (open access)

The Tort Law Debate, Efficiency, and the Kingdom of the Ill: A Critique of the Insurance Theory of Compensation

This article critiques and in large measure rejects the insurance theory of compensation. It contains an argument that the theory has fundamental failings--both normative and practical--that render it untenable as a primary guide to determining the appropriate compensatory sums in any programmatic setting.
Date: February 1993
Creator: Pryor, Ellen S.
System: The UNT Digital Library