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A 2002 report by the President's Council of Economic Advisors investigated the burden of liability costs on the economy, but it did not provide new information about the incentive effects of tort liability. Rather, the report sketched three alternative scenarios, each of which assumed that certain categories of the direct costs estimated by Tillinghast have no impact on the behavior of potential injurers and are thus "excessive.
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2. See Stuart Speiser and others, The American Law of Torts, vol. 1 (Rochester, N.Y.
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Chamber of Commerce, which estimated that asbestos liabilities have caused $0.6 billion to $2.1 billion in disruption costs from bankruptcies and layoffs.(7) Are Tort Costs Excessive? Costs can be considered excessive if they do not contribute positively to either efficiency or equity.
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Courts generally use one of two rules in answering that question (although other approaches can be imagined). Under joint-and-several liability, any one injurer or subset of injurers can be held responsible for paying all of the damages. That individual or group often has the right to seek reimbursement from the remaining injurers. Under several liability, by contrast, the court determines the relative contribution of each injurer in causing the harm and holds each one responsible for only that proportion of the damages.
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9 percent of gross domestic product in the United States, compared with 1.7 percent in Italy and 1.
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