International Liability for Mob Injuries

Alternative Liability Regimes for Medical Injuries

In the U.S. physicians and other medical providers are subject to a negligence rule of liability. Under a negligence rule a patient who is injured as a result of medical care is entitled to compensation only if he or she can show that the injury was caused by the physician's failure to take due care. Given a finding of liability, compensation is determined by a civil jury. In recent years the f...

International Property-liability Insurance Consumption

During the 1980s and early 1990s, the world insurance market grew substantially. World insurance premiums in 1993 accounted for about 8 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 4 percent in 1984. This article explains a substantial proportion of the variation in propertyliability insurance consumption across countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

Strict Liability for Medical Injuries? The Impact of Increasing Malpractice Liability on Obstetrician Behavior

The extent and existence of defensive medicine in the face of medical malpractice liability pressure is a perennial subject of both policy and academic debate. In this paper, I investigate the impact of a series of court rulings in Taiwan that increased physicians’ liability risks, and a subsequent amendment to the law that reversed the courts’ rulings, on physicians’ test-ordering behavior and...

The Referee's Liability for Catastrophic Sports Injuries - A UK Perspective

Medical liability crisis: an international problem.

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2003, 45: 363–363 363 ‘On the influence of abnormal parturition: difficult labours, premature birth, and asphyxia neonatorum, on the mental and physical condition of the child, especially in relation to deformities’. In the third paragraph he notes ‘the object of this communication is to show that the act of birth does occasionally imprint upon the nervo...