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Autor:
John Sarratt, Ralph A. Peeples
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
The central idea in collaborative law is that the parties agree to resolve their dispute without going to court. This agreement takes the form of a commitment by the parties’ lawyers to withdraw if litigation becomes necessary. Collaborative law ha
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 3:467-496
Previous empirical studies have speculated about the role that factors other than negligence play in the resolution of medical malpractice claims. The present study identifies and evaluates the impact of three “strategic variables” in the medical
Autor:
Ralph A. Peeples, Catherine T. Harris
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This article examines the amount recovered in 118 wrongful death cases filed in a single jurisdiction (North Carolina) over a five year period. The dataset is unique, in that it includes both jury verdicts and settlements. Although the injury -- deat
Autor:
Catherine T. Harris, Ralph A. Peeples
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper examines ten years (2001-2010) of medical malpractice trials conducted in Virginia and North Carolina. Tort law is quite similar in these two states, except that Virginia law imposes a "hard cap" on damages in medical malpractice cases. Th
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
We begin with Galanter's suggestion that attorneys who are "repeat players" in a specific area of litigation have an advantage over those who are not. Using a combination of data sources we analyze the impact of attorney experience and case character
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Annals of family medicine. 3(2)
PURPOSE Various public and private initiatives encourage physicians to coordinate care for patients who have multiple chronic conditions, but physicians may resist doing so for fear of liability. This article assesses the extent of liability risk. ME
Autor:
Ralph A. Peeples, Catherine T. Harris
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Medical malpractice insurance "crises" seem to recur with distressing frequency. Indeed, the escalating costs of malpractice insurance premiums have become the focal point for advocates of tort reform. Although medical malpractice litigation has been
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
It is almost impossible to talk about medical malpractice without the subject of plaintiffs' lawyers coming up. Plaintiffs' attorneys are the focus of much attention and considerable controversy. Nonetheless, we really know very little about these pe
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
In medical malpractice litigation, how the standard of care is determined is of obvious importance, since failure by a defendant-physician to meet the relevant standard of care constitutes negligence. Any effort to reform how standard-of-care determi
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 41:333
We conduct an analysis of the jurisdictional dispute over the management of medical malpractice lawsuits, focusing on the process through which liability is defined. We utilize a North Carolina sample of physicians who have been sued, their defense c