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Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is not only a device to reallocate risk, but also to enhance an insured's position in a … settlement negotiation. The paper points out that this function of LCI is especially important in cases that have a negative …
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The papers show that Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is a device to enhance potential litigants' bargaining position rather … than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …
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The paper shows that Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is a device to enhance potential litigants? bargaining position rather … than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296950
Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is not only a device to reallocate risk, but also to enhance an insured's position in a … settlement negotiation. The paper points out that this function of LCI is especially important in cases that have a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509588
The papers show that Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is a device to enhance potential litigants' bargaining position rather … than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509618
The paper shows that Legal Cost Insurance (LCI) is a device to enhance potential litigants? bargaining position rather … than to re-allocate risk. Being insured decreases the cost an insured party has to bear if settlement negotiations fail and … value suits, LCI can make the threat to sue credible and motivate potential defendants to make positive settlement offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509619
The appellate review system is intended to serve as an efficient remedy for imperfect judicial decision making. However, it can fulfill this task only when appeals are filed solely due to bad verdicts and are ex-ante unpredictable based on factors that are exogenous to the judge. Using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310656
Victims want to collect damages from injurers. Cases differ with respect to the judgment. Attorneys observe the expected judgment, clients do not. Victims need an attorney to sue; defense attorneys reduce the probability that the plaintiff prevails. Plaintiffs' attorneys offer contingent fees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427108
Victims want to collect damages from injurers. Cases differ with respect to the judgment. Attorneys observe the expected judgment, clients do not. Victims need an attorney to sue; defense attorneys reduce the probability that the plaintiff prevails. Plaintiffs' attorneys offer contingent fees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199570
The appellate review system is intended to serve as an efficient remedy for imperfect judicial decision making. However, it can fulfill this task only when appeals are filed solely due to bad verdicts and are ex-ante unpredictable based on factors that are exogenous to the judge. Using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489300