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, vicarious liability, most courts have inappropriately exercised jurisdiction over these cases. Importantly, this includes the … Appeals decision on this matter valid?a decision which held that ERISA preempts vicarious liability claims against MCOs. It … bears noting that ERISA does not provide similar liability protection to physicians. Second, independent contractor law also …
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the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability … when workers differ in their costs of pursuing a injury claim, employers have an incentive to deny liability and force … more likely to fight back when liability is denied. Estimates of the structural model confirm that the decision rules of …
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Little is known about the economics of plaintiff-side law firms, which typically work on a contingency fee basis. We begin here to fill that gap. We report on the fees received by 124 plaintiff-side personal injury firms located in four states (Illinois, Texas, and two additional undisclosed...
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In this paper, I explore the often-contested territory that tort occupies within the more expansive domain of worker's compensation. This exploration reveals that, far from being substitutes, tort and worker's compensation are, in fact, deeply and inextricably joined: A complementarity that...
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injured eight more. The article considers some different legal models for the liability of corporations for the deaths and …
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the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability … when workers differ in their costs of pursuing a injury claim, employers have an incentive to deny liability and force … more likely to fight back when liability is denied. Estimates of the structural model confirm that the decision rules of …
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strict liability rule for railway accidents by the Prussian Railway Law in 1838. This was a complete break with the whole … in the present-day broad diffusion of the liability rule in the German tort law. …
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