[A] seminal book on tort liability and insurance systems. [Abraham] systematically outlines the interdependency of the tort liability system and the insurance industry in the U.S. during the 20th century, including the impact of September 11, 2001.
   --R. A. Carp, Choice

In demonstrating the complex interactions between tort and insurance, The Liability Century makes an important contribution to our understanding of two reciprocally-related and very important institutions in our legal landscape.
   --James A. Henderson, Jr., Cornell Law School

The Liability Century should have a major impact on how legal scholars and lawyers think about the relationship between liability and insurance. It pulls together in one readable and coherent volume a history of the relationship between liability and liability insurance and then raises a series of deceptively simple questions that follow from the realization that, as Abraham puts it, tort and insurance are a bipolar star. Nothing like it has been written, ever. I rank it as among the most significant books in the tort and insurance field.
   --Tom Baker, University of Connecticut Law School

Kenneth S. Abraham is David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia.