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Non-economic damages in medical malpractice appeals : does the jurisdiction make a difference?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2015
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...
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Records of medical malpractice litigation : a potential indicator of healthcare quality in China
Wang, Zhan; Li, Niying; Jiang, Mengsi; Dear, Keith; … - 2017
Objective: To assess the characteristics and incidence of medical litigation in China and the potential usefulness of the records of such litigation as an indicator of healthcare quality. Methods: We investigated 13,620 cases of medical malpractice litigation that ended between 2010 and 2015 and...
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Judicial Performance Indicators at Work : An Empirical Study of the Medical Malpractice Litigations in Shanghai
Zhang, Wei - 2018
this paper, I ascertained the effect of some of these indicators on the court decisions on medical malpractices in Shanghai …
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Chapter 2 Liability for Accidents
Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 139-182). 2007
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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Mandatory Legal Malpractice Insurance : Exposing Lawyers’ Blind Spots
Fortney, Susan Saab - 2019
The legal landscape for lawyers’ professional liability in the United States is changing. In 2018, Idaho implemented a … may address particular concerns expressed by those who oppose requiring lawyers to carry professional liability insurance …
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Curing is caring? : liability reforms, defensive medicine and malpractice litigation in a post-pandemic world
Antoci, Angelo; Fiori Maccioni, Alessandro; Russu, Paolo; … - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 80 (2022), pp. 1-10
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The Patient Injury Epidemic : Medical Malpractice Litigation as a Curative Tool
Furrow, Barry R. - 2012
This article considers the virtues of such litigation as a curative tool for the adverse event epidemic in U.S. health care, analyzes the mistaken premises of the critics, and offers a series of improvements to the litigation system to make more and fairer litigation possible. Reforms will...
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Advocatus, et non Latro? : testing the excess of litigation in the Italian courts of justice
Buonanno, Paolo; Galizzi, Matteo M. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 10 (2014) 3, pp. 285-322
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Federal Judge Ideology : A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk
Huang, Allen - 2019
Drawing on the political theory of judicial decision making, our paper proposes a new and parsimonious ex ante litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk based on industry membership and firm characteristics....
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Judging Multidistrict Litigation
Burch, Elizabeth Chamblee - 2015
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