American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other
economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits …

In the 1980s and 1990s many states adopted tort reforms. It has been argued that these
reforms have reduced the practice of defensive medicine arising from excess tort liability. We …

S INCE it was announced by the Supreme Court in 1993, Daubert v. Merrell Dow
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'has become the foundational opinion in the modern law of scientific …

How do legal techniques affect corporate behaviour? Do legal techniques affect corporate
behaviour? Which legal techniques affect corporate behaviour—and how? A cursory glance …

This article reviews the empirical literature on the effects of damages caps and concludes
that the better‐designed studies show that damages caps reduce liability insurance …

A San Francisco jury recently awarded a nine-year-old boy $70.9 million in damages after
finding a hospital and medical clinic negligent for failing to diagnose his metabolic disease …

Concerns about juries dominate punitive damages reform debates. Some observers suggest
that allowing judges, not juries, to set punitive award levels will improve civil justice. a Others …

This paper evaluates the impact of six different types of tort reforms on the frequency, size,
and number of total annual settlements in medical malpractice cases between 1991 and …

Physicians' apologies for adverse medical events are acknowledged as a factor in patients'
decisions to litigate. Apology laws which render physicians' apologies inadmissible in court …

Abstract Theory suggests that tort reform could have two possible impacts on accidents.
Reforms could increase accidents as tortfeasors internalize less of the cost of externalities …