Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 467 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139626828
Series Statement:
International corporate law and financial market regulation
Content:
What happens when a corporate subsidiary or network company is unable to pay personal injury victims in full? This book sets out to tackle the 'insolvent entity problem', especially as it arises in cases of mass wrongdoing such as those involving asbestos exposure and defective pharmaceuticals. After discussing the nature of corporate groups and networks from the perspectives of business history, organisation studies, and social theory, the book assesses a range of rules and proposed rules for extending liability for personal injuries beyond insolvent entities. New proposals are put for an exception to the rule of limited liability and for the development of a flexible new tort based on conspiracy that encompasses not only control-based relationships but also horizontal coordination between companies. The book concludes with a general discussion of lessons learned from debates about extended liability and provides guidelines for the development of new liability rules
Content:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Business Context: 2. The formation of corporate groups and networks; 3. Structuring of corporate group relations; 4. Insolvent entity case studies; Part II. Theory: 5. Conceptions of group and network liability; Part III. Statute: 6. General protections for creditors; 7. Group-specific protections for creditors; 8. Statutory torts; 9. Modified limited liability; Part IV. Common Law: 10. Veil-piercing; 11. Direct liability in tort; 12. Vicarious and joint liability in tort; 13. Conclusions
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107039926
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Witting, Christian Liability of corporate groups and networks Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107039926
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107039924
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Witting, Christian Liability of corporate groups and networks Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108714204
Additional Edition:
ISBN 110871420X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Konzernrecht
;
Gesellschaftsrecht
;
Haftung
;
Personenschaden
;
Insolvenzrecht
DOI:
10.1017/9781139626828
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