Suing Solely to Extract a Settlement Offer

The Cost of Suing Business

A death attributed solely to diltiazem.

An elderly woman, distraught over the recent death of her husband, was found dead of an apparent suicide. Qualitative screening detected only the presence of diltiazem, an antihypertensive, antianginal agent that was prescribed for a known heart ailment. Quantitation of diltiazem was carried out on available fluids and tissues with the following results: blood 6.7 mg/L, urine 5.4 mg/L, vitreous...

Bargaining with Voluntary Transmission of Private Information: Does the Use of Final Offer Arbitration Impede Settlement?

We identify two features of final offer arbitration (FOA) which may impede settlement in a bargaining game where asymmetric information drives the failure to settle. First, under FOA the informed party has an incentive not to voluntarily reveal private information. Revealing this information allows the previously uninformed party to submit a superior offer to the arbitrator to the detriment of ...

Learning by suing: stock market reactions to patent litigation decisions

A Sociopragmatic Study of the Offer Speech Act in Persian

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...