Antitrust Damages’ Claims in Spain

Damages in Private Antitrust Actions in Europe

Prices and Quantities in Health Care Antitrust Damages

Antitrust analysis conventionally assumes that illegal agreements among competitors raise prices and lower quantities, relative to lawful competition. However, markets for healthcare services have tendencies towards overprovision, which may increase when competition declines. This paper examines this possibility using data from a well-known antitrust case in Wisconsin. We find that, in parts of...

How to Defend Punitive Damages Claims Effectively—and Maybe Successfully

A PUNITIVE damage award in a highprofile case is a corporate defense counsel’s worst nightmare. Consider, as examples, • $2.7 million punitive damages against McDonald’s Corp. for burns a customer suffered from a coffee spill; • $7.1 million for a secretary who prevailed in a sexual harassment case; • $101 million against General Motors in a design defect case; • $125 million against a pharmace...

Backdoor eugenics: the troubling implications of certain damages awards in wrongful birth and wrongful life claims.

international commercial arbitration and the challenge of mandatory rules of law: the case of arbitration in antitrust claims

for decades, the approach of legal systems towards private arbitration in competition law has been characterized by a certain mistrust or suspicion. initially, this attitude may somehow have been linked to the uncertainty as to the arbitrability of competition law issues, in view of the fact that, in competition law matters generally, public interests are heavily at stake. in fact arbitration i...