United States Department of Transportation
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Alcoholic Beverage Server Liability and the Reduction of Alcohol-Related Problems: Evaluation of Dram Shop Laws: Summary Report
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1990-06-01
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Abstract:The project was an evaluation of the potential for the legal liability of alcoholic beverage servers to stimulate preventative serving practices and thus reduce alcohol-involved traffic problems. Legal analyses of judicial and legislative actions within individual states determined that states could be ranked according to their relative level of liability exposure. Utilizing both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, the project found that in states ranked highest in server liability there was more publicity about such liability, greater awareness and concern among licensed establishment owner/managers, and differential serving practices compared to states with lowest liability exposure. A time series analysis in one state, Texas, which had experienced a dramatic change in server liability (from relatively little to relatively high) and significant accompanying publicity had a statistically significant drop in alcohol-involved traffic crashes as a result. The project concluded that server liability with incentives for preventative serving practices had more potential for reducing alcohol-involved traffic problems than strict liability alone. /Abstract from report summary page/
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