Radiation Injuries: Statute of Limitations Inadequacies in Tort Cases

Deterrence, litigation costs, and the statute of limitations for tort suits

The conventional justification for a statute of limitations on tort suits (or any other legal claim) is that evidence deteriorates over time, thereby increasing the likelihood of legal error. The optimal statute balances this cost of a longer statute length against the dilution in deterrence that results from a shorter length. In this paper I develop a formal model to show that a finite statute...

Radiation and preconception injuries: some interesting problems in tort law.

Malpractice and the statute of limitations.

Analysis of Tort Cases

Empirical analysis of juries in tort cases

Throughout its history, the jury has attracted both stiff criticism and unqualified praise, viewed by turns as an incompetent, naïve, and biased decision maker and as an astute repository of folk wisdom and common sense. Here, we examine how the American jury actually behaves in the tort cases that produce the majority of civil jury trials. The evidence shows that juries usually use reasonable ...