CLAIMS AND SETTLEMENT IN ROAD PROJECT

A Psychological Perspective on the Settlement of Mass Tort Claims

Selection of road project portfolios

We describe a real-world problem from the road sector in Norway. Every four years the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) have to select which road development projects to do the next four years. This portfolio of projects has to be selected from a much larger set of worthy projects. Todays practice in evaluating individual road projects is based on the well known cost-benefit analysis...

International Law and the Settlement of Territorial Claims in South America , 1816 - 1992 Paul

Claims and Jurisdictions in Medical Matters Disputes

Medical claims are all disputes that are somehow related to the medical and related matters so its subject is wide-ranging. These are civil, criminal and diciplinair medical cases, and due to the multy natures of such cases, we are likely to see numerous authorities to them. Furthermore, here expert medical expertise and expert opinion play an important role, but the rules are somewhat conflict...

The Plaintiff’s Attorney in the Liability Insurance Claims Settlement Process: A Game Theoretic Approach

The decision of a claimant to obtain legal counsel, the timing of this decision, and the impact on the settlement amount an insurer successfully can offer are the focus of this study. This paper draws on strategic models of litigation/settlement with endogenous settlement amounts in the law and economics literature, but differs by endogenizing the decision to hire an attorney and its timing. Th...