Liability Sharing Rules: a Typology

Règles de répartition d’un dommage entre plusieurs auteurs: une typologie

Dylan Martin-Lapoirie () and Sarah van Driessche
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Dylan Martin-Lapoirie: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sarah van Driessche: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: A reform of tort law is under way in France since March 2017. One of the important aspects of this reform concerns the apportionment of liability when the damage is caused by several tortfeasors. This paper offers a theoretical and experimental literature review of joint liability rules. It states that the efficiency of a liability sharing rule depends on the nature of causality, on the liability regime, and on the information held by the judge. The theory and the experimental evidence which rely on different types of accident and on different kinds of liability rule highlight the importance to establish an apportionment of the damage as a function of the contributions to this damage.

Keywords: Joint liability; Apportionment of liability; Causal uncertainty; Joint causation; Tort law; Responsabilité conjointe; Partage de responsabilité; Incertitude causale; Causalité multiple; Responsabilité civile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-02-05
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Published in Revue Economique, 2025, 75 (6), pp.1241-1273. ⟨10.3917/reco.756.1241⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.756.1241

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