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The capped fees would increase plaintiffs' incentives to accept early offers and thus defendants' incentives to make them. 11. In that case, strict liability could provide efficient incentives if each party faced potential liability for 100 percent of the damages, rather than 100 percent for both parties combined. Negligence standards could also provide efficient incentives here; as discussed above, however, such standards are not fully efficient in general because they do not provide appropriate incentives for the scale of nonnegligent activities.
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A second, less centralized way to reduce nonpecuniary damages would be to allow producers of goods and services to specify in advance the extent of damages they would pay in the event of an injury. Products carrying limits on damages could be offered at lower prices (because their expected costs would be lower), and the forces of supply and demand would determine the options available in the market. That approach could lead to the elimination of nonpecuniary damages for risky products--if, as argued in Chapter 3, consumers would rather have lower prices than actuarially fair insurance for such damages. In principle, the courts could implement this option on their own, without legislation, by enforcing damage-limitation contracts in injury cases.
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