Evidence-Based Litigation Reform

Applying Interpretive- Structural Modelling to Review Priorities of Health Reform Plan: Evidence-based policy making

  Introduction: Considering the fact that the health reform plan has been implemented for five years, it is necessary to re-evaluate the plan and adapt it to the needs and macro policies of our society. Therefore, the current study aimed to use health-related scientific evidences together with the experiences, opinion, and expertise of field professionals to achieve priorities for health refor...

Nursing home litigation and tort reform: a case for exceptionalism.

The medical malpractice crisis that is currently spreading across the United States bears many similarities to earlier crises. One novel aspect of the current crisis is the explicit inclusion of litigation against nursing homes as a target of reform. Encouraged by the nursing home industry, policymakers are considering the extension of conventional medical malpractice tort reforms to the nursin...

Empirical evidence and malpractice litigation.

Medical Malpractice Litigation and Tort Reform: It’s the Incentives, Stupid

The Affordable Care Act, remedy, and litigation reform.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) rewrote the law of private health insurance. How the ACA rewrote the law of civil remedies, however, is a question largely unexamined by scholars. Courts everywhere, including the U.S. Supreme Court, will soon confront this important issue. This Article offers a foundational treatment of the ACA on remedy. It predicts a series of flas...