This article assesses predictors of payouts and non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Medical malpractice cases can be judged in administrative or civil courts, and this distinction heavily relies on the type of hospital...

The judicial performance indicators have been widely used in China to assess the performance of courts and judges. In this paper, I ascertained the effect of some of these indicators on the court decisions on medical malpractices in Shanghai. The findings of this paper support the previous study...

This article looks at the effect that damage caps have on plaintiffs' recovery in medical malpractice litigation, using a unique data set of litigation in the South, from 1987 to 1999. During this time, Alabama underwent both the implementation and nullification of damage-cap laws; neighboring...