(60) Provisional application No. 60/788,859, filed on Apr. (75) Inventors: Paul A. Colussi, Gloucester, MA 3, 2006, provisional application No. 60/875,917, filed (US); Thomas C. Evans, JR., on Dec. 20, 2006. Topsfield, MA (US); Christopher O O H. Taron, Essex, MA (US) Publication Classification (51) Int. Cl. Correspondence Address: 6. 245 3: ) HARRIET M. STRIMPEL, D. Phil. CI2N 9/16 6. 3. New E...

In 1994, Mississippi and Minnesota independently filed lawsuits against the tobacco industry seeking reimbursement of smoking-attributable Medicaid expenditures. Numerous other states filed similar suits over the next several years. During 1997-1998 the original pair, plus Florida and Texas, settled their suits during or on the eve of trial. In November 1998, the remaining 46 states negotiated ...

As the United States marks 50 years since the beginning of the Great Society social programs initially intended to end rural poverty the results of this endeavor are far from complete. Over eighty percent of the most impoverished counties in the United States are rural with double digit unemployment and limited potential for economic growth. Although traditional welfare transfer structures have...

Suppose that victim j employs a bandwagon strategy {δ, δ&j}. We will characterize victim i’s best response, beginning with period 2. If victim i filed suit in period 1, then he has no further action to take. Suppose that victim i did not file suit in period 1. If victim j filed suit in period 1, then victim j has no further action to take and nothing will change in the future; thus victim i wil...

very practice treating Medicare patients is subject to an audit by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms), formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (hcfa). In the year  the federal government won or negotiated more than $. billion in judgments, settlements, and administrative impositions in health care fraud cases and proceedings; federal prosecutors filed ...

This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was filed average $35,000 per claim in 2004$, which corresponds to a share of 0.18 of total expenditures. Claims with higher stakes and complexity lead to greater reliance on out...