Misfeasance in Public Office: An Emerging Medical Law Tort?

Medical Malpractice Tort Reform an Introduction to Tort Law

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Tort law and medical malpractice insurance premiums.

This paper estimated the effects of tort law and insurer investment returns on physician malpractice insurance premiums. Data were collected on tort law from 1991 through 2004, and multivariate regression models, including fixed effects for state and year, were used to estimate the effect of changes in tort law on medical malpractice premiums. The premium consequences of national policy changes...

Modern Tort Law Demystified

Medical malpractice and the goals of tort law.

Imagine that you have an eighteen-month old son who is suffering from severe pain in his back and legs, and after a consultation, the doctor insists that you are simply a neurotic, over-worried parent and sends you and your family to a psychiatrist. Upon getting a second opinion, you discover that your son has a tumour on his spine. Or, imagine that a family member receives a gall stone operati...

Serious Tort Law Reform

Tort law is a form of collective intervention into social and economic affairs that carries with it substantial costs, both public and private. These costs include higher prices for goods and services, higher taxes, and the socially undesirable consequences that tort law has on people's behavior such as the failure of companies to develop and introduce products the public wants, the wasteful an...