• Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspective
• Yearbook on European Tort Law
• Digest of European Tort Law
• Database on European Tort Law
• The Effects of a Lack of Financial Means on the Duty of Care and Liabilities of Hospitals
• Principles of European Tort Law
• Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation
• Loss of Housekeeping Capacity
• The Special Case of Mass Torts

Loss of Housekeeping Capacity

The Institute for European Tort Law has embarked in cooperation with the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) on a new project at the request of The Swiss Insurance Association. The topic is “Haushaltsschaden” – loss of housekeeping capacity.

The project aim is to compare national approaches to the award of damages under the head of “Haushaltsschaden” or loss of housekeeping capacity, and to compare the levels of damages so awarded. The research will therefore investigate both the concepts employed in different national systems and, through a set of practical case studies, the amounts of compensation actually paid in individual cases.

The results of the research will be published as a book, including ten country reports (Austria, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) based on a questionnaire (Part I: General Part and Doctrine, Part II: Concrete Assessment Examples) and a concluding Comparative Report.

The project leaders are Ernst Karner and Ken Oliphant.

The volume will be published in spring 2010.