Importance The tort liability system is intended to serve 3 functions: compensate patients
who sustain injury from negligence, provide corrective justice, and deter negligence …

Importance Although physician concerns about medical malpractice are substantial, national
data are lacking on the rate of claims paid on behalf of US physicians by specialty. Objective …

Although the right to trial by jury is enshrined in the US Constitution, in recent years both
criminal and civil juries have been criticized as incompetent, biased, and irresponsible. For …

After establishing the importance of knowledge of settlement rates, this article first shows that
different research questions can yield different settlement rates. Using data gathered from …

An increasing number of legal and policy issues are turning on accurate empirical
information. A few examples will illustrate the point. In Exxon Shipping v. Baker, 554 US 471 …

This chapter explores the interaction of tort law and psychology. The law of torts governs the
circumstances under which one person or entity is to be held civilly liable for having caused …

Every legal dispute is unique. At a sufficiently fine-grained level, of course, the underlying
facts of every case make it one-of-a-kind, but disputes also differ from each other along other …

Although the jury is often referred to as one of the bulwarks of the American justice system, it
regularly comes under attack. Recent changes to trial procedures, such as reducing jury …

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 …

No one will deny that the law should in some way effectively use expert knowledge
wherever it will aid in settling disputes. The only question is as to how it can do so best …