Directors and Officers (d and o) Liability.

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Questionnaire -- Country Reports -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Austria -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Brazil -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in the Czech Republic -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Germany -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Israel -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Italy -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in the Netherlands -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Norway -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Poland -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Spain -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Switzerland -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in Turkey -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in the United Kingdom -- Directors' and Officers' Liability in the United States -- Special Reports -- Directors' and Officers' Liability: Economic Analysis -- Directors' and Officers' Liability and Insurance from a Conflict of Laws Perspective -- Directors' and Officers' Liability from an Insurance Law Perspective -- Directors' and Officers' Liability and Legal Policy from an Austrian Entrepreneur's Perspective -- Comparative Report -- Directors' and Officers' Liability: Comparative Report -- List of Contributors and Editors -- Publications -- Index.

Liability law is rapidly changing in quite a number of countries. This is due to various factors, which are interrelated to a large extent: changing case law and legislation as well as increased and still increasing technical and medical knowledge. As a result, various occupational diseases can, for example, be attributed to working conditions or personal injury to specific products. From the very moment that causation can be proven, the question arises of whether or not liability can be established‑ with far-reaching economic consequences for all parties involved. The rise of phenomena such as mass torts, multiple causation, joint and several liability or various heads of damages (like ecological damage and several diseases and affections) rapidly increases the interest in tort law. In the context of the interrelation between liability and insurance, attention must be paid to the question of whether certain liabilities are still coverable or not, and, if they are, to what amounts. (The question of jurisdictions is of growing importance as is the question of whether a specific liability can be covered by insurance. In this context, one should bear in mind that the affordability of tort law also requires safe and sound insurers. The recent past has shown that there is a limit to their financial stability.).

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