RAND Corporation researcher James M. Anderson noted no-fault insurance is a "classic example of the law of unintended consequences" in a 2010 report on the subject. Credit: tommaso79/Shutterstock
Initially conceived in the 1930s and seeing its first real-world use in the 1970s, no-fault auto insurance aims to make compensating auto accident victims quicker and less expensive by keeping relatively small claims out of the court systems by removing the lengthy and costly process of determining who is at fault following an accident.
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