Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the various statutes concerning first-party, excess-liability in an effort to compose a model act. The primary issues affecting this problem are two-fold: First, what type of extra-contract damages should be available (e.g., attorney fees, litigation expenses, consequential losses, emotional distress, punitive damages); and second, should these extra-contract damages be based on an equitable standard of good-faith conduct (fault) or on strict liability principles (no fault)? These are crucial questions as the division between contract and tort becomes ever more blurred in modern law.
Repository Citation
Eric M. Holmes,
A Model First-Party Insurance Excess-Liability Act
(1980),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/108
Georgia Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Spring 1980), pp. 497-538