By many accounts, the United States is in the midst of its third medical malpractice “crisis.”
Physicians in several states are facing high and rising premiums. The largest national …

That there is widespread discontent with the tort system is surely an understatement. Most
public discourse takes it as axiomatic that the system is seriously flawed and needs to be …

Drawing upon extensive experience in law, government service, teaching, and research,
Ronald Cass offers a contribution to the ongoing public discussion on law and society. After …

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 …

Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime
and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond …

Legal scholars generally assume that law should strive towards coherence.'The ideal of
coherence is regarded as particularly important in the context of criminal sanctions, where it …

Large audit firms may believe they are too big to fail. Arthur Andersen's 2002 criminal
indictment reduced their number from five to four, and the government decided in 2005 to …

The insurance underwriting cycle has become a touchstone in the debate over medical
malpractice reform. On the one hand, trial lawyers and others who seek to preserve existing …

This article uses the complete property‐casualty insurance files of the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners from 1984 to 1991 to assess the effect of medical malpractice …