Trends in Personal Injury Litigation: the 1990s

Illness behaviour, pain and personal injury litigation.

The Injury Brokers: an Empirical Profile of Medical Expert Witnesses in Personal Injury Litigation

[In the civil justice system, medical expert witnesses act as brokers of what qualifies as legally recognised and compensable injury. Despite the central importance of their role, and continuing debate over the use of expert evidence, remarkably little empirical evidence is available about who medical experts are and what they do. This article reports findings from a study that built a detailed...

Trends in malpractice litigation.

Physicians who make mistakes are not necessarily negligent, contrary to prevailing opinion in the medical community. The article discusses the legal concepts of "standard of care" and "proximate cause." The incidence of favorable jury verdicts in those cases in which malpractice suits are litigated is quite high. The effects of insurance company policies in decisions about settlements on the in...

Poverty Trends in Ghana in the 1990s

Preface This report presents an up-to-date analysis of poverty patterns and trends in Ghana, based on the results of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS). The GLSS is a multi-topic household survey, designed to provide comprehensive information on the living standards of Ghanaian households. So far, four rounds have been completed each round covering a nationally representative sample of ho...

Assessing Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of West Virginia

The federal/state legal system of the United States means that a forensic economist faces different legal rules and parameters in each state of his or her practice. It is the purpose of this article to provide an experienced forensic economist, entering a West Virginia case, with necessary information and guidance for appropriate testimony in personal injury and wrongful death cases. This is ac...