Approaches to Governmental Liability in Tort: A Comparative Survey

Governmental and institutional tort liability for quality of care in Canada.

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Tort Liability: a Minefield for Managed Care?

The restructuring of health insurance contracts and health care delivery systems under managed care is the result of competitive attempts to reduce the inefficiencies that developed in medical markets under traditional indemnity insurance. Liability rules that continue to apply norms of customary care threaten to undermine these potential efficiency gains. Liability rules under managed care sho...

Who Pays for Tort Liability Claims? An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Tort Liability System

Limiting Tort Liability for Medical Malpractice

The past few years have seen a sharp increase in premiums for medical malpractice liability insurance, which health care professionals buy to protect themselves from the costs of being sued (see Figure 1 on page 2). On average, premiums for all physicians nationwide rose by 15 percent between 2000 and 2002—nearly twice as fast as total health care spending per person. The increases during that ...

approaches to redressing fatal torts; a comparative study of iranian and american tort laws

this enigma that “how should tort law assign monetary values to human lives?” has preoccupied many legal scholars. in responding this question, two independent bodies of law try to redress the personal injuries in the united states;1-tort law, in which the courts use a case-specific numbers to assess damages, making individual differences crucial and 2-regulatory policy, that relies on a unifor...