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In this “scholarative,” combining personal narrative and traditional doctrinal scholarship, the author uses a story about personal loss to argue for a new type of wrongful death damages.When a tortiously caused death occurs, five losses/injuries result: (1) the decedent's life itself; (2) the...
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The concept of strict liability has important theoretical significance but almost no analytical or doctrinal traction … doctrinally empty concept of strict liability is an important movement toward a more unified, coherent, and analytically sound …
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Punitive damages have long been viewed as taxable by the IRS, and that view was enshrined in 1996 with a U.S. Supreme Court case and a statutory change to section 104. Yet there remains a narrow exception from this treatment that exempts limited damages for wrongful death. Wood explores this...
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. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent …
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When people face risk of death, they over invest in risk reduction: first, they discount their risk-reduction costs by the probability of death; second, they consider the consumption of their wealth as a benefit from risk reduction. From a social perspective, people’s wealth remains after...
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Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …
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the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
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measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …
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