Transportation Tort Liability Travels Up the Supply Chain

There should be awareness in the transportation marketplace that action will be required to accommodate increased risk exposure in evolving case law. Third party logistics (3PL) business models and economic assumptions will have to materially change if tort liability imputation is included in that adjustment. Innovative insurance developments may, on one hand, be required by this change. 3PL growth facilitation into even larger economic units that are the only units capable of such risk accommodation, on the other hand, may thereby further supply chain control centralization into fewer and fewer 3PL entities' hands.

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  http://law.du.edu/pdfdocuments/transpoarchive/v34.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Sullivan, Daniel C
  • Barrette, Matthew P
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 289-305
• Serial:
  • Transportation Law Journal
  • Volume: 34
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: University of Denver College of Law
  • ISSN: 0049-450X
  • Serial URL: http://www.law.du.edu.tlj/issues

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Businesses; Economics; Insurance; Legal documents; Risk assessment; Risk management; Supply chain management; Third party logistics providers; Tort liability
• Uncontrolled Terms: Assumptions; Centralized; Imputation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01076623
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 7 2007 2:55PM