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Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Accidents Will Happen”
NRBQ, “It Was a Accident”
Scatman Crothers, "Keep that Coffee Hot"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Scar Tissue"
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "I'll Sue Ya"
DAMAGES
Amel Larrieux, “Make Me Whole”
Atomic Kitten, "Whole Again"
Linda Ronstadt, "Hurt So Bad"
Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt"
Motörhead, “Damage Case”
Maria Mena, “A Few Small Bruises”
Eminem, “Brain Damage”
Pink Floyd, “Brain Damage”
Love Tractor, “Pain and Suffering”
J. Geils Band, "Serves You Right to Suffer"
Bad Religion, "Suffer"
Fugazi, "Life and Limb"
Bubba Sparxxx, “Too Much Pain”
Roy Orbison, "I'm Hurtin'"
Morrissey, “How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel”
Catherine Pierard, “City of London Sinfonia & Richard Hickox, “Is It All? Is All This Suffering and Pain: Is This in Vain? (Female Chorus) The Rape of Lucretia, “Op. 37, “Act II, “Scene 2:“
Gang of Four, "Paralyzed"
Marilyn Manson, "Deformography"
WRONGFUL DEATH
Morrissey, “You Have Killed Me”
PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES
Chris Isaak, “Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”
INSURANCE
Sonny Boy Williamson, “Insurance Man Blues”
Paul K Johnson II, “Mister Claims Adjuster”
The Ramones, “High Risk Insurance”
Tammy Vice, “The Medical Insurance Blues”
The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan, "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby (Uncensored)"
Buddy Guy, “Take Out Some Insurance”
NEGLIGENCE
Dierks Bentley, “What Was I Thinkin'?"
Warren Zevon, “The Risk”
Billy Cioffi & The Monte Carlos, “Reasonable Man”
The National, “Reasonable Man (I Don't Mind)”
Madeleine Peyroux, “Careless Love”
Ray Charles, “Careless Love”
Patsy Cline, “Patsy Talks About Car Accident”
Lisa Loeb, “Accident”
Gordon Lightfoot, “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Bob Dylan, "Tempest"
Anon., "They Built the Ship Titanic"
Grateful Dead, "Casey Jones"
Tony Britton Johnson, Sutton Foster, Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison, Bob Martin, Don McKellar, “Accident Waiting to Happen”
Toots & The Maytals, “Careless Ethiopians”
Dave Mathews, "Crash into Me"
Alabama, "Reckless"
David Bowie, "Putting out the Fire (With Gasoline)"
LIABILITY RULES
Ella Fitzgerald, "Don't Fence Me In"
MIS-FEASANCE/NON-FEASANCE
Morrissey, “Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning”
CAUSATION
Outback, “Cause-in-Fact" (Original Edit)
Bruce Springsteen, “Blinded By the Light”
Led Zeppelin, “Trampled Under Foot”
TYPES OF ACCIDENTS
Rockhill, “Slip & Fall”
NOFX, “We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows”
DJ Shadow, “Blood On the Motorway”
Thursday, "Understanding in a Car Crash"
The Beta Band, "Needles in my Eyes"
DEFENSES
Josh Keesan, “Contributory Negligence”
Rich Palmer, “Personal Responsibility”
New Found Glory, “It's Not Your Fault”
Face to Face, "Everything's Your Fault"
Paul Butterfield, "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
Shaggy, "It Wasn't Me"
John Prine, "Ain't Hurtin' Nobody"
SETTLEMENT & COMPENSATION
Rage Against the Machine, “Settle for Nothing”
The Bare Naked Ladies, "If I had $1,000,000"
MF Doom, "Operation: Greenbacks"
LITIGATION ISSUES
Bill Houston, “Liability Rag”
Quietdrive, “Rise from the Ashes”
Bob Noone, “LawSuit Riot”