Resolving Asbestos Claims: The Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust

Product liability forecasting for asbestos-related personal injury claims: a multidisciplinary approach.

This paper focuses on three aspects of forecasting models for asbestos-related disease/injuries relating to the Manville asbestos case: (1) The structure of forecasting models for asbestos-related personal injuries. (2) The epidemiologic evidence supporting the selected model structure and the constraints on the modeling assumptions imposed by that evidence. (3) The range of uncertainty associa...

Asbestos exposure and psychic injury--a review of 48 claims.

Asbestos exposure has been a common occupational risk resulting in much litigation. Where pulmonary dysfunction has been minimal or even absent, psychic injury has been made an element in claimed damages. Analysis of psychiatric and psychologic claims in 48 cases reveals that diagnoses often do not conform to professional standards, are based on insufficient data sampling, lack adequate overall...

Fault lines: resolving clinical negligence claims.

The cost of clinical negligence claims against the NHS in England rose to £1.259bn ($1.9bn, €1.5bn) in the last financial year, and the number of new cases in 2012-13 climbed by 10.8% to more than 10 000. The year before, in 2011-12, the bill breached £1bn for the first time after a 30% rise in claims the previous year, forcing the UK government to pump in an emergency cash injection. The figur...

A Psychological Perspective on the Settlement of Mass Tort Claims

Personal Trust Increases Cooperation beyond General Trust

In this paper we present a new methodology which, while allowing for anonymous interaction, it also makes possible to compare decisions of cooperating or defecting when playing games within a group, according to whether or not players personally trust each other. The design thus goes beyond standard approaches to the role of trust in fostering cooperation, which is restricted to general trust. ...