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Faure, Michael G. --- "Accident Compensation" [2006] ELECD 152; in Smits, M. Jan (ed), "Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law

Editor(s): Smits, M. Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420130

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Accident Compensation

Author(s): Faure, Michael G.

Number of pages: 17

Extract:

1 Accident compensation*
Michael G. Faure


1 Introduction
The issue of how victims of accidents can receive compensation has been
addressed for a long time in many legal systems and of course also in com-
parative law. The complicated issue of the topic `accident compensation' is
of course that a variety of legal instruments come to mind that can be used
by victims to receive compensation after an accident has happened. Some of
these will be discussed in other items in this encyclopedia. This is more par-
ticularly the case for tort and for insurance, both of which are important
instruments. There is also an overwhelming literature describing the ways
in which victims can achieve compensation not only for their damage in
different countries, but also from a comparative perspective. It seems as if
recently the number of publications in this domain has only been increasing.
One reason for the interest in accident compensation may simply be
the increasing interest in the harmonization of law and more particularly
private law in Europe. This has given rise to many volumes which usually
are based on country reports describing the situation in the particular
country of the reporter and which usually contain a comparative analysis
as well. Many of these books have as their goal to examine whether there is
a common core in the (European) legal systems which could be used as a
basis for a possible harmonization of the law with respect to accident com-
pensation. Hence, a lot of ...