Table of Contents

Series Editor's PrefaceRita J. SimonThe Case for Automobile Tort Liability Jerry J. Phillips The Case for No-Fault Insurance Stephen Chippendale ResponsesRejoinder-Jerry J. PhillipsRejoinder-Stephen Chippendale Index

Promotional Information

A full, fair, and frank airing of the issues animating the controversy over no-fault automobile insurance and demonstrating the evenness of the debates...The civility of the authors and their grasp of the subject makes the text a pleasure to read. -- Joseph Page, Georgetown University Law School Few policy issues are as vital to national welfare as the debate over no-fault automobile insurance. In attempting to unravel the sometimes devastating consequences of a car accident, whether society chooses to treat the matter primarily as an instance of economic dislocation requiring sufficient loss allocation or, instead, as a morally significant event requiring personal accountability is a problem of enormous import to the nation's moral and economic health. Studies of this critical, persistent issue come and go, but never has it been so lucidly and provocatively debated as in this engaging little book by Jerry Phillips and Stephen Chippendale. Everyone should read it. -- David Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina

About the Author

Jerry J. Phillips is W.P. Toms Professor of Law and Walter W. Bussart Distinguished Professor of Tort Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Stephen Chippendale is an associate at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Washington, D.C., and served as Deputy General Counsel to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.

Reviews

A full, fair, and frank airing of the issues animating the controversy over no-fault automobile insurance and demonstrating the evenness of the debates...The civility of the authors and their grasp of the subject makes the text a pleasure to read.--Joseph Page, Georgetown University Law School

Few policy issues are as vital to national welfare as the debate over no-fault automobile insurance. In attempting to unravel the sometimes devastating consequences of a car accident, whether society chooses to treat the matter primarily as an instance of economic dislocation requiring sufficient loss allocation or, instead, as a morally significant event requiring personal accountability is a problem of enormous import to the nation's moral and economic health. Studies of this critical, persistent issue come and go, but never has it been so lucidly and provocatively debated as in this engaging little book by Jerry Phillips and Stephen Chippendale. Everyone should read it.--David Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina