For many physicians, the prospect of being sued for medical malpractice is a singularly disturbing aspect of modern clinical practice. State legislatures have enacted tort reforms, such as caps on damages, in an effort to reduce the volume and costs of malpractice litigation. Attempts to introduce similar traditional reform measures at the federal level have so far failed. Much less prominent, ...

F O R T H E U N E M P L O Y E D W O R K E R , the number of weeks he can draw benefits in a year, together with the amount of benefits he draws per week, is of special importance. Duration of benefits is important in determining not only the adequacy of unemployment compensation but also the total cost of benefit payments and hence the solvency of unemployment compensation funds. Consideration ...

With an increasing burden on public sector budgets, increased responsibility and cost sharing mechanisms for animal diseases are being considered. To achieve this, fiscal and non-fiscal intervention policies need to be designed such that they consistently promote positive disease risk management practices by animal keepers. This paper presents a review of the available evidence towards whether ...

Lion (Panthera leo) populations are in decline throughout most of Africa. The problem is particularly acute in southern Kenya, where Maasai pastoralists have been spearing and poisoning lions at a rate that will ensure near term local extinction. We investigated 2 approaches for improving local tolerance of lions: compensation payments for livestock lost to predators and Lion Guardians, which d...

introduction Over the last few decades, researchers have taken a thorough and critical look at corporate governance from various perspectives. They have studied how legal, social, and market forces influence the control mechanisms that a company adopts to prevent or discourage self-interested behavior by management. They have examined the structure and operations of the board of directors. They...

W I T H T H E E N A C T M E N T in October of amendments to the Massachusetts law, the main State legislative ac t iv i ty of 1941 affecting unemployment compensation came to an end. D u r i n g the year the legislatures of 4 3 States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawai i , meeting in regular sessions, revised their unemployment compensation laws in some respect, and the United States Congr...

Awards such as orders, medals and decorations are a global phenomenon; they exist everywhere in society and in all times. They serve as signals to generally indicate socially desired behavior as well as motivators for individual persons. Awards in the form of orders, crosses, decorations, prizes, and titles, are non-material, but extrinsic incentives. The realm of awards is quite vague. The sem...

BACKGROUND Although China experienced great improvement in their health system, disputes between patients and doctors have increasingly intensified, reaching an unprecedented level. Retrospective analysis of medical malpractice litigation can discover the characteristics and fundamental cause of these disagreements. METHODS We analyzed medical malpractice litigation data from 1998 to 2011 for...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort. OBJECTIVE To explore the ability to capture low back pain (LBP) recurrence using wage-replacement (WR) data. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA LBP can be a recurrent, fluctuating, and disabling condition. Because of its largely nonspecific and subjective nature, the condition poses challenges for research and clinical management, as speaking directly with the aff...