Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes A Comparative Leg
Recently, mankind is not only suffering from all kind of natural catastrophes (earthquakes, flooding, storms or volcanoes), but increasingly also from so-called man-made disasters, including technological disasters such as explosions, but obviously also t
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Tort and Insurance Law Vol. 14 Edited by the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law together with the
Research Unit for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Michael Faure Ton Hartlief (eds.) Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes A Comparative Legal Approach With Contributions by Tola Amodu Suzanne A. Bratis Michel Cannarsa Filippo A. Chiaves Isabelle C. Durant Michael Faure Ton Hartlief Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay Michael Huber Bernhard A. Koch Fabien Lafay Ulrich Magnus Alberto Monti Olivier Moréteau Siv Nyquist Erik Persson Robert L. Rabin Roger Van den Bergh
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Table of Contents I NTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1 Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part VII.
Problem Definition........................................................................... 1 Goal of this Book ............................................................................. 2 Methodology .................................................................................... 3 Framework of the Project................................................................. 4 Collaborators in this Project............................................................. 5 Structure of this Book ...................................................................... 5 Words of Thanks.............................................................................. 6
C OUNTRY R EPORTS ..................................................................................... 7 Austria (Dagmar Hinghofer-Szalkay and Bernhard A. Koch) ....................... 7 Part I. P
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