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Endnotes
1. The term "tort" broadly refers to any legal case (other than breach of contract) in which injuries are inflicted by the defendant. In legal terms, a tort is a breach of a legal duty resulting in damages to another party.
2. In a 1985 study, Peter Huber documented how the attentions of the tort system are disproportionately fixed on new technologies and products, thereby leading to his conclusion that "life has grown safer not because of the legal system but despite it." Peter Huber, "Safety and the Second Best: The Hazards of Public Risk Management in the Courts," Columbia Law Review 85 (March 1985): 336.
3. Office of the Comptroller, City of New York, FY 1994 Report on Claims: The "Deep Pocket" (New York, 1995).
4. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Press release (Washington, DC, May 24, 1995), 3.
5. RAND Institute for Civil Justice, Facts and Trends 2, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 1.
6. Insurance Research Council, Auto Injuries: Claiming Behavior and Its Impact on Insurance Costs (Oakbrook, IL, 1994), 1; and O'Connell et al., "Consumer Choice in the Auto Insurance Market," Maryland Law Review 52, no. 4 (1993): 1022-23.
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