SURGICAL DAMAGES.

About surgical tactics in damages of the thoracic and lumbar parts of the spine

In the overall structure of spinal injuries in adults vertebro-spinal injury ranges from 2.2% to 20.6%. When fractures of the spine are complicated by neurological disorders, most commonly lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae 39.2% and 48.5% are injured respectively. 45 patients with damage to the thoracic and lumbar spine, admitted to the neurosurgical department of RCSUMA. The main method of p...

Liquidated Damages in California

Tornado Inflicted Damages Pattern

On average, about a thousand tornadoes hit the United States every year. Three out of every four tornadoes in the world, occur in the United States. They damage life and property in their path and they often hit with very little, sometimes no warning. Tornadoes cause approximately 70 fatalities and 1,500 injuries in US every year. The interest of this study is to find whether the fatalities and...

Patent Damages and Spatial Competition

This paper analyzes price competition between a spatially differentiated product patentee and an imitator anticipating the possibility of future patent damages. We compare the performance of three damage regimes. The “reasonable royalty” regime, the only one that yields symmetric equilibrium pricing, maximizes static welfare and yields the highest incentives to innovate when patent enforcement ...

Punitive Damages and Valuing Harm