Mass Torts in a World of Settlement

Designing Compensation Programs for Individuals and Households After Man-Made and Natural Disasters in the United States

“…Such excluded compensation programs include mass-tort settlements (see, for example, Nagareda, 2007;Garber, 2013) or private compensation offered as an alternative to tort, such as the recent General Motors program related to ignition switches (Bronstad, 2015). 4 Authors have distinguished between ex ante and ex post compensation programs (see, for example, Faure and Hartlief, 2006;Faure, 2007).…”

Class Actions, Group Litigation and Other Aggregative Procedures in Latin America: A General Overview

“…By the twentieth century, the Writ of Amparo was already adopted by most Latin American legal systems, both in the form of general constitutional provisions, 9 and also through special legislation that further developed its procedure, effects and scope.…”

Mass Justice and its Challenges

“…His chapter thus develops the analysis set forth in his book Mass Torts in a World of Settlement. 2 The arrangements for mass resolution under U.S. law range from relatively overt procedures for aggregation (including the classic class action) to other aggregate measures that operate in a much more opaque fashion. Nagareda argues that the clampdown in class action doctrine in recent decades has made class settlements a relatively unattractive vehicle through which to resolve mass tort claims.…”