reinforcement of physician liability for off-label use may be the preferred instrument for achieving dynamic efficiency. The … liability threat reduces the demand for off-label use, giving manufacturers an appropriate incentive to invest in extended … approval. By contrast, patent prolongation does not affect physicians' prescription decisions and increases the likelihood of …

payments to physicians: medical and industry groups adopted voluntary codes, federal agencies published advisory guidelines … companies think twice before lavishing gifts and payments on physicians, which in turn would help to ensure that those “learned …

toolkit introduces medical liability as an intrinsic component of tort law, which itself must be understood as a part of … of medical liability, and the nature of the alleged “crisis,” the toolkit indicates how reform has been attempted at the … clause drafting. The toolkit also includes an up-to-date list of medical liability reforms in the fifty states, the only such …

availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and … regulation of liability insurance. Comprehensive reforms that approach medical malpractice insurance as a health policy problem …

An important objective of medical liability law is to deter medical errors by punishing negligent mistakes. However … and state tort reforms in the United States between 1994 and 2007, I found evidence that higher liability pressure deters … effects of tort reforms vary by the specific reform in question: while joint and several liability reform (which increases …

An important objective of medical liability law is to deter medical errors by punishing negligent mistakes. However … and state tort reforms in the United States between 1994 and 2007, I found evidence that higher liability pressure deters … effects of tort reforms vary by the specific reform in question: while joint and several liability reform (which increases …

reform increases physician supply and access to care. However, the degree to which marginal changes in malpractice liability … inelastic, then tort reform will not affect physicians' net income or location decisions. I use county-level, specialty …-specific annual counts of physicians from 1970 to 2000 to estimate the effect of damage caps on physician supply. The results suggest …

This paper proposes a solution to many of the basic problems with the current system of medical malpractice liability … insurance results of medical malpractice liability. By making first-party insurers plaintiffs and placing them on the same … footing as their defense-side counterparts, liability insurers, UIS should increase the rate at and effectiveness with which …