From: Wright, Richard <rwright@kentlaw.iit.edu>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Date: 21/08/2013 23:56:01 UTC
Subject: Fwd: NZ accident system on A(ustl.)BC

Interesting take on safety incentives in NZ.
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From: Richard Peltz-Steele <rpeltzsteele@umassd.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Subject: NZ accident system on A(ustl.)BC
To: tortprof
tortprof@chicagokent.kentlaw.edu
Greetings and happy new academic year, torts profs. 

Some of you might, as I do, infuse a bit of comparativism into your torts class.  You might like to use parts of this nifty video I just came across from Australian Broadcasting Corp., about ten months old now, linking the New Zealand adrenalin industry with the NZ accident compensation system.  Great stuff on deterrence.  The legal parts kick in especially at about 21 minutes.  There's a transcript, so you can get a feel for the whole thing.

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2012/s3621762.htm

rick jps

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