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Medical Malpractice Insurance Studies
Friday, June 29, 2007
What effect have reforms had on medical malpractice insurance premiums? Are rising defense costs for malpractice cases part of the problem, and, if so, how have insurance companies responded?
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"Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution"
Monday, April 23, 2007
At this AEI event, Professor Bernstein will present his paper, followed by a panel discussion with Edward K. Cheng of Brooklyn Law School, defense attorney Joe G. Hollingsworth of Spriggs & Hollingsworth, and Deborah Runkle of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ted Frank, director of AEI’s Liability Project, will moderate.
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Watters v. Wachovia Bank
The Roberts Court Weighs In on Preemption
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Does federal banking law bar states from regulating the activities of state-chartered subsidiaries of national banks? What should the appropriate scope of the National Bank Act be?
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The U.S. Senate Takes On Medical Malpractice Reform
Monday, April 24, 2006
What is the appropriate role of the federal government in addressing the issue of medical malpractice and what are the potential conflicts between the federal government and the states?
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Medical Malpractice Liability and Physician Supply
HEALTH POLICY DISCUSSION
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Do doctors really flee certain states, avoid high-risk specialties such as neurosurgery and obstetrics, or even forgo practicing medicine as a result of ever-growing liability concerns?
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Sarbanes-Oxley: What Have We Learned?
Monday, March 13, 2006
At this AEI event Larry Ribstein Henry N. Butler discuss their forthcoming monograph, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: How to Fix It and What We’ve Learned.
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Will the FAIR Act Fix the Asbestos Mess?
Thursday, January 19, 2006
The Fairness in Asbestos Injury Recovery (FAIR) Act, S. 852, would establish a $140 billion trust fund to compensate victims of asbestos-related diseases.
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The Medical Malpractice Myth?
Monday, December 19, 2005
The real problem with America’s medical liability system too much medical malpractice rather than too much litigation.
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Katrina's Liability Implications
Monday, October 3, 2005
A panel addresses issues the Gulf States' legal systems will be forced to address in the coming months and years.
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The $253 Million Vioxx Verdict
What Does It Mean?
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
On August 19, 2005, a jury in Angleton, Texas, found Vioxx producer Merck liable for the death of fifty-nine-year-old Robert Ernst.
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Liability Outlook No. 2, 2007 - The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
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| In the second Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank gives an assessment of how CAFA has fared in its first two years and what challenges remain in the context of mass torts. |
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Liability Outlook No. 1, 2007 - Rollover Economics
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| In this first Liability Outlook of 2007, Ted Frank examines a nine-figure verdict against Ford for alleged "defective design" in its SUVs and analyzes the legal problems that led to it. |
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