Recent judicial expansions of tort law in the area of environmental pollution

This report assesses whether increased losses of liability insurers may be due in part to expanded tort-law interpretations in the field of environmental pollution. It concludes that there has indeed been such an expansion in recent decades, but numerous other factors may also be contributing to the claimed liability insurance crisis.,CRS 86-1003 A,"November 13, 1986.",SuDoc# LC 14. 18/3