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COLLECTIVE PROCESS FOR MASS TORT CASES, BY DAVID ROSENBERG i (1989)

handle is hein.ali/aliinjury0013 and id is 1 raw text is: Collective Process for Mass Tort Cases f Contents 10 EtV1 e I. Introduction A. Mass Tort Case Defined ............................ 1 B. Traditional Case-by-Case Process .................. 2 C. Collective Process Advocates ...................... 4 II. Traditional Case-by-Case Process A Functional Productivity Analysis of its Costs A. Compensation Function ............................. 6 B. Deterrence Function ............................... 8 C. Defendants in Traditional Process................. 8 1. Functional Effects . . ... ..................... . 9 2. Strategic Advantages.,......................... 10 D. Attorney Abuses ..................o................ 12 E. Shadow Prices .............. o....................... 13 1. Public Costs .............................. o..... 13 2. Settlement..... III. The Existing Collective Alternatives to the Traditional Process A. Introduction ............................ o.......... 15 B. Analysis of Alternatives ...... o ................... 15 1. Voluntary Aggregation and Averaging ........... 15 a. Settlement .................................. 15 b. Voluntary Joinder ........................... 17 2. Involuntary Aggregation and Averaging .......... 20 IV. General Objections to Collective Process