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with strong incentives to limit costs and deny care due to legal rules that shield them from virtually all liability for …, 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 …
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with strong incentives to limit costs and deny care due to legal rules that shield them from virtually all liability for …, 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 …
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Damage Averaging in Tort Law -- On the Superiority of Damage Averaging in the Case of Strict Liability -- Screening Accident …
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This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are addressed. The first … is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities (for instance, whether to drive) and how …-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential …
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"Economic models of contract typically assume that courts enforce obligations on the basis of verifiable events. As a matter of law, this is not the case. This leaves open the question of optimal contract design given the available remedies that are enforced by a court of law. This paper shows...
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Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...
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