CONTEXT Proponents of restrictions on malpractice lawsuits claim that tort reform will improve access to medical care. OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects of changes in state malpractice law on the supply of physicians. DESIGN Differences-in-differences regression analysis that matched data on the number of physicians in each state between 1985 and 2001 from the American Medical Association's...

This paper evaluates alternative rules of liability and compensation for occupational disease. The criterion applied is minimization of the sum of the costs associated with occupational disease, disease prevention, uninsured risk costs, and litigation and insurance overhead or transaction costs. Options considered include the workers' compensation system, the tort system, first party insurance,...

The paper deals with a research of Tort law school development in St. Volodymyr's University – Taras Shevchenko National Kyiv. purpose the is to analyse and study main trends key directions development. author applied lots different methods, among which were historical legal method (for analysis works from past), synthesis stating peculiarities approaches studies' periods). Also, such methods a...

This article highlights two contrasting sets of images of tort that are dominant in UK culture. The first set reflects various aspects of the traditional portrayal of justice, which depicts tort as an independent ‘natural’ system of rules of universal application forming the foundation of a just society. The second group of images is more recent and relates to the perceived development of a dam...

Today's tort liability falls short of its laudable goals of deterring substandard care, compensating those injured and operating a fair injury resolution process. Medical and safety reformers call for cutting back liability, but reforms ought to improve both compensation and patient safety. Scenarios toward improvement are presented, but a key improvement is listing avoidable classes of events ...

Escalating wildfires on forestlands in recent years have resulted in statutory changes in redefining the liability for landowners in using prescribed fires. This study summarized these reforms in recent years. While in some states there is still strict tort liability for damages from prescribed fires, eighteen states have reduced the liability burdens on landowners with simple negligence rules,...

The development of judicial power brings some changes. One is the evolution administrative law related to object dispute, which embraces factual action. Thus, tort was also affected by this change. This writing aims understand government's liability on and regulation onrechtmatige overheidsdaad before after enactment Law Number 30/2014 government administration. legal research method reveals th...