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Full-Text Articles in Law
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Torts And Innovation, Alex Stein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Torts And Innovation, Gideon Parchomovsky, Alex Stein
Torts And Innovation, Gideon Parchomovsky, Alex Stein
All Faculty Scholarship
This Essay exposes and analyzes a hitherto overlooked cost of the current design of tort law: its adverse effect on innovation. Tort liability for negligence, defective products, and medical malpractice is determined by reference to custom. We demonstrate that courts’ reliance on custom and conventional technologies as the benchmark of liability chills innovation and distorts its path. Specifically, the recourse to custom taxes innovators and subsidizes replicators of conventional technologies. We explore the causes and consequences of this phenomenon and propose two possible ways to modify tort law in order to make it more welcoming to innovation.
Summary Of Winchell V. Schiff, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 80, Brandon Johansson
Summary Of Winchell V. Schiff, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 80, Brandon Johansson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal and cross-appeal from a district court judgment entered on a jury verdict in a conversion/lease action.
Summary Of M.C. Multi-Family Dev. V. Crestdale Assocs., 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 77, Jennifer K. Koonce
Summary Of M.C. Multi-Family Dev. V. Crestdale Assocs., 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 77, Jennifer K. Koonce
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order granting Defendant’s motion for directed verdict on a claim for conversion and cross-appeal denying Defendant’s request for attorney fees and prejudgment interest.
Understanding And Problematizing Contractual Tort Subrogation, Brendan S. Maher, Radha A. Pathak
Understanding And Problematizing Contractual Tort Subrogation, Brendan S. Maher, Radha A. Pathak
Faculty Scholarship
The modern incarnation of tort subrogation allows an insurer to force its insured to turn over the litigation proceeds independently obtained by the insured against a third-party tortfeasor, even if the insured has not been made whole by such litigation. This Article demonstrates that such a result is the product of a subrogation-as-contract paradigm that has taken hold in the federal system, most notably by the United States Supreme Court in Sereboff v. Mid-Atlantic Services, 547 U.S. 356 (2006). More importantly, the Article illustrates the conceptual and historical roots of subrogation to demonstrate the extent to which subrogation-as-contract is divorced …
Private Equity's Three Lessons For Agency Theory, William Wilson Bratton
Private Equity's Three Lessons For Agency Theory, William Wilson Bratton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Calling It A Leg Doesn't Make It A Leg: Doctors, Lawyers And Tort Reform, Ellen Wertheimer
Calling It A Leg Doesn't Make It A Leg: Doctors, Lawyers And Tort Reform, Ellen Wertheimer
Working Paper Series
It has long been a truism that doctors hate lawyers. This article explores some of the reasons for this phenomenon, as well as some areas for reform that might help to promote a better relationship between the professions.
Defense Costs And Insurer Reserves In Medical Malpractice And Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence From Texas, 1988-2004, Bernard Black, David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, William M. Sage
Defense Costs And Insurer Reserves In Medical Malpractice And Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence From Texas, 1988-2004, Bernard Black, David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, William M. Sage
Faculty Scholarship
We study defense costs for commercially insured personal injury tort claims in Texas over 1988–2004, and insurer reserves for those costs. We rely on detailed case-level data on defense legal fees and expenses, and Texas state bar data on lawyers’ hourly rates. We study medical malpractice (“med mal”) cases in detail, and other types of cases in less detail. Controlling for payouts, real defense costs in med mal cases rise by 4.6 percent per year, roughly doubling over this period. The rate of increase is similar for legal fees and for other expenses. Real hourly rates for personal injury defense …
Dances With Elephants: Administrative Resolution Of Medical Injury Claims By Medicare Beneficiaries, Eleanor D. Kinney, William M. Sage
Dances With Elephants: Administrative Resolution Of Medical Injury Claims By Medicare Beneficiaries, Eleanor D. Kinney, William M. Sage
Faculty Scholarship
In our judgment, Hoffmann and Rowthorn's research clearly demonstrates that the QIO-based complaint review process does not provide genuine relief to beneficiaries. People who complain typically want an explanation of their bad experience, compensation for harm they may have suffered, and assurance that future experiences will be better for themselves and for others. Medicare beneficiaries, however, receive minimal information about the resolution of their complaints and no substantive relief whatsoever.
As Hoffmann and Rowthorn point out, several reform proposals are now before Congress, including moving the beneficiary complaint function from QIOs to new "Medicare Provider Review Organizations." It is not …
Summary Of Boulder City V. Boulder Excavating, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 65, Stephen O. Schofield
Summary Of Boulder City V. Boulder Excavating, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 65, Stephen O. Schofield
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
No abstract provided.
The Case For Field Preemption Of State Laws In Drug Cases, Richard A. Epstein
The Case For Field Preemption Of State Laws In Drug Cases, Richard A. Epstein
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Amicus Brief, Lebron V. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Neil Vidmar, Tom Baker, Ralph L. Brill, Martha Chamallas, Stephen Daniels, Thomas A. Eaton, Theodore Eisenberg, Neal R. Feigenson, Lucinda M. Finley, Marc Galanter, Valerie P. Hans, Michael Heise, Edward J. Kionka, Thomas H. Koenig, Herbert M. Kritzer, David I. Levine, Nancy S. Marder, Joanne Martin, Frank M. Mcclellan, Deborah Jones Merritt, Philip G. Peters, Jr., James T. Richardson, Charles Silver, Richard W. Wright
Amicus Brief, Lebron V. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Neil Vidmar, Tom Baker, Ralph L. Brill, Martha Chamallas, Stephen Daniels, Thomas A. Eaton, Theodore Eisenberg, Neal R. Feigenson, Lucinda M. Finley, Marc Galanter, Valerie P. Hans, Michael Heise, Edward J. Kionka, Thomas H. Koenig, Herbert M. Kritzer, David I. Levine, Nancy S. Marder, Joanne Martin, Frank M. Mcclellan, Deborah Jones Merritt, Philip G. Peters, Jr., James T. Richardson, Charles Silver, Richard W. Wright
Scholarly Works
Illinois Public Act 82-280, § 2-1706.5, as amended by P.A. 94-677, § 330 (eff. Aug. 25, 2005), and as codified as 735 ILCS 5/2-1706.5(a), imposes a $500,000 “cap” on the noneconomic damages that may be awarded in a medical malpractice suit against a physician or other health care professional, and a $1 million “cap” on the noneconomic damages that may be awarded against a hospital, its affiliates, or their employees.
This brief will address two of the questions presented for review by the parties:
1. Does the cap violate the Illinois Constitution’s prohibition on “special legislation,” Art. IV, § 3, …
What Riegel Portends For Fda Preemption Of State Law Products Liability Claims (Part Ii), Catherine M. Sharkey
What Riegel Portends For Fda Preemption Of State Law Products Liability Claims (Part Ii), Catherine M. Sharkey
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
What Riegel Portends For Fda Preemption Of State Law Products Liability Claims, Catherine M. Sharkey
What Riegel Portends For Fda Preemption Of State Law Products Liability Claims, Catherine M. Sharkey
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Jackpot Justice And The American Tort System: Thinking Beyond Junk Science, Tom Baker, Herbert M. Kritzer, Neil Vidmar
Jackpot Justice And The American Tort System: Thinking Beyond Junk Science, Tom Baker, Herbert M. Kritzer, Neil Vidmar
All Faculty Scholarship
In 2007 the Pacific Research Institute released a report, Jackpot Justice: The True Cost of America's Tort System, that is widely available on the internet. The conclusion of the report is that America's tort system costs $865.37 billion annually, amounting to an "annual price tag, or 'tort tax' for a family of four in terms of costs and foregone benefits" of $9,827. As our report will demonstrate, the conclusions of Jackpot Justice are without scientific merit and present a very misleading picture of the American tort system and its costs.
Research on the tort system's efficiency, its fairness and …
Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries, Michael Ashley Stein
Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries, Michael Ashley Stein
Faculty Publications
The first decision of an injured worker suing his master for a workplace accident was reported in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria's ascension. The second Workman's Compensation Act, a comprehensive social insurance scheme, was passed in 1900, a few months before her death. The Article provides an initial account of the development of employers' liability to their servants for work-related injuries during the Victorian era. It demonstrates that English judges, and especially the Barons of the Exchequer, interpreted the law to resist employers' liability. The means these judges used included creating the defence of common employment, widely applying the …
Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living And Tort Law Incentives, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Michele Mathes, Nadia N. Sawicki
Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living And Tort Law Incentives, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Michele Mathes, Nadia N. Sawicki
All Faculty Scholarship
Modern ethical and legal norms generally require that deference be accorded to patients' decisions regarding treatment, including decisions to refuse life-sustaining care, even when patients no longer have the capacity to communicate those decisions to their physicians. Advance directives were developed as a means by which a patient's autonomy regarding medical care might survive such incapacity. Unfortunately, preserving patient autonomy at the end of life has been no simple task. First, it has been difficult to persuade patients to prepare for incapacity by making their wishes known. Second, even when they have done so, there is a distinct possibility that …
Cafa's Impact On Litigation As A Public Good, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Cafa's Impact On Litigation As A Public Good, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Scholarly Works
Class actions regulate when government fails. Perhaps this use as an ex post remedy when ex ante regulation founders explains the fervor and rhetoric surrounding Rule 23's political life. In truth, the class action does more than aggregate; it augments government policing and generates external societal benefits. These societal benefits - externalities - are the spillover effects from facilitating small claims litigation. In federalizing class actions through the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Congress, in some ways, impeded class action practice, thereby negating its positive externalities and inhibiting backdoor regulation. This Article critically considers those effects on the common good. …
Summary Of Turner V. Mandalay Sports Entertainment, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20, Tyler James Watson
Summary Of Turner V. Mandalay Sports Entertainment, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20, Tyler James Watson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order granting summary judgment in a tort case brought against Mandalay Sports Entertainment, owner of the Las Vegas 51s.
Design Defects, David G. Owen
Paying With Their Lives: The Status Of Compensation For 9/11 Health Effects: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On The Judiciary, 110th Cong., Apr. 1, 2008 (Statement Of Kenneth Feinberg, Adjunct Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Kenneth R. Feinberg
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Due Process And Punitive Damages: An Economic Approach, Keith N. Hylton
Due Process And Punitive Damages: An Economic Approach, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This paper sets out a public choice (rent-seeking) theory of the Due Process Clause, which implies that the function of the clause is to prevent takings through the legislative or common law process. This view of the clause's function supports a preference for expanding rather than contracting the set of entitlements protected by the clause. The Supreme Court's application of due process reasoning in the punitive damages case law is in some respects consistent and in other respects inconsistent with this theory. For the most part, the Court has failed to develop a set of doctrines that would enable lower …
Blurring The Boundary Lines Between Amateur And Professional Sports, Kenneth D. Ferguson
Blurring The Boundary Lines Between Amateur And Professional Sports, Kenneth D. Ferguson
Faculty Works
The NCAA expends substantial resources to insure that the distinction between amateur and professional sports is maintained in collegiate athletics. Preserving the boundary lines between amateur and professional sports is more than an attempt to ensure philosophical purity or a nostalgic quest for historic preservation. The boundaries between amateur and professional sports are maintained by legal doctrines in several areas.
Application of tort law to coaches' liability for conduct leading to injuries to athletes reflects and preserves the boundary lines between professional and amateur sports. Although the implied assumption of risk doctrine should preserve that distinction, some courts have applied …
Doctrinal Feedback And (Un)Reasonable Care, James Gibson
Doctrinal Feedback And (Un)Reasonable Care, James Gibson
Law Faculty Publications
The law frequently derives its content from the practices of the community it regulates. Examples are legion: Tort's reasonable care standard demands that we all exercise the prudence of an "ordinary" person. Ambiguous contracts find meaning in custom and usage of trade. The Fourth Amendment examines our collective expectations of privacy. And so on. This recourse to real-world circumstance has in-tuitive appeal, in that it helps courts resolve fact-dependent disputes and lends legitimacy to their judgments. Yet real-world practice can depart from that which the law expects. For example, suppose a physician provides more than reasonable care - extra tests, …
Tortious Interference With Expectancy Of Inheritance Or Gift--Suggestions For Resort To The Tort, Irene D. Johnson
Tortious Interference With Expectancy Of Inheritance Or Gift--Suggestions For Resort To The Tort, Irene D. Johnson
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article examines the various factual circumstances in which a tort recovery for interference with the expectancy of inheritance or gift might be available, either as the only possible remedy for the disappointed expectant person or as an alternative to a remedy at equity or at probate, and determines, in regard to each circumstance, whether a cause of action in tort should be available. This tort has received recent attention, especially in light of the substantial awards, both compensatory and punitive, in a California Bankruptcy Court, 253 B.R. 550 (Bankr. C.D. Cal 2000), and, on appeal, in the U,S. District …
Brief Of Amicus Curiae Aarp In Support Of Respondents, Warner-Lambert Company Llc V. Kent, No. 06-1498 (U.S. Jan. 18, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
Brief Of Amicus Curiae Aarp In Support Of Respondents, Warner-Lambert Company Llc V. Kent, No. 06-1498 (U.S. Jan. 18, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
Peterson V. Balach, Obvious Dangers, And The Duty Of Possessors Of Land In Minnesota, Michael K. Steenson
Peterson V. Balach, Obvious Dangers, And The Duty Of Possessors Of Land In Minnesota, Michael K. Steenson
Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this article is to analyze Minnesota landowners law, with particular emphasis on the impact of Peterson v. Balach. Following a short history of Minnesota law governing possessors’ duties, including a discussion of pre-Peterson v. Balach and Adee v. Evanson cases, the article considers the question of why the courts, post-Peterson v. Balach/Adee v. Evanson, regularly return to pre-Peterson forms to resolve possessor liability issues, particularly in cases involving obvious dangers, and whether the phenomenon is a result of a wrong turn or is a reflection of a conscious policy choice intended to effectively repudiate the progressive position …
Introduction: Genuine Tort Reform, Carl Bogus
Introduction: Genuine Tort Reform, Carl Bogus
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Massachusetts V. Epa And The Future Of Environmental Standing In Climate Change Litigation And Beyond, Randall S. Abate
Massachusetts V. Epa And The Future Of Environmental Standing In Climate Change Litigation And Beyond, Randall S. Abate
Journal Publications
This Article focuses on the future scope of environmental standing after Massachusetts v. EPA. Injury in fact has been and remains the most controversial component of the environmental standing test within and outside the context of global environmental harms. Part I of this Article discusses the background context of environmental standing for global environmental harms and its corresponding origins in procedural and substantive injury claims in cases involving purely domestic environmental harms. Part II examines the landmark decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and considers how it confirms and extends standing jurisprudence for global environmental harms, yet fails to resolve some …
Demystifying The Right To Exclude: Of Property, Inviolability, And Automatic Injunctions, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Demystifying The Right To Exclude: Of Property, Inviolability, And Automatic Injunctions, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
All Faculty Scholarship
The right to exclude has long been considered a central component of property. In focusing on the element of exclusion, courts and scholars have paid little attention to what an owner's right to exclude means and the forms in which this right might manifest itself in actual property practice. For some time now, the right to exclude has come to be understood as nothing but an entitlement to injunctive relief- that whenever an owner successfully establishes title and an interference with the same, an injunction will automatically follow. Such a view attributes to the right a distinctively consequentialist meaning, which …