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The Uneasy Case For Food Safety Liability Insurance, John Aloysius Cogan Jr. Dec 2014

The Uneasy Case For Food Safety Liability Insurance, John Aloysius Cogan Jr.

John Aloysius Cogan Jr.

Foodborne illnesses sicken millions and kill thousands of Americans every year. Our dysfunctional government food safety system appears incapable of protecting us, leading some to look to the private market for solutions to our food safety crisis. One private market approach, food safety liability insurance, is gaining popularity. This Article questions the emerging view that liability insurance can supplement government regulation of food safety. This article takes a more comprehensive approach than previous scholarship by systematically addressing the shortcomings of liability insurance as a regulator of food safety from three distinct perspectives: (1) an economics of information framework, (2) an …


Perfectly Legal To Mandate The Purchase Of Insurance, Alan E. Garfield Nov 2011

Perfectly Legal To Mandate The Purchase Of Insurance, Alan E. Garfield

Alan E Garfield

No abstract provided.


Healthcare In Cuba, Carmen M. Cusack J.D. Oct 2010

Healthcare In Cuba, Carmen M. Cusack J.D.

Carmen M Cusack

Poor Americans who lack health-insurance or have little opportunity to access specialized or non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. should be permitted by the U.S. State Department to spend money in Cuba in order to receive inexpensive medical treatment, and should be allowed to stay (and spend) in Cuba as long as necessary in order to receive inexpensive medical treatment. If Americans were permitted by an exception in the Helms-Burton Act to spend money in Cuba and visit for medical purposes, then Cuba would likely treat these Americans for a very low cost. This can be argued because 1) Cuba …


Is Actuarially Fair Insurance Pricing Actually Fair? A Case Study In Insuring Battered Women, Deborah Hellman Aug 2009

Is Actuarially Fair Insurance Pricing Actually Fair? A Case Study In Insuring Battered Women, Deborah Hellman

Deborah Hellman

No abstract provided.


The Debt Financing Of Parenthood, Melissa B. Jacoby Dec 2008

The Debt Financing Of Parenthood, Melissa B. Jacoby

Melissa B. Jacoby

In this contribution to the symposium Show Me the Money: Making Markets in Forbidden Exchange, I explore an under-appreciated participant in the assisted reproduction and adoption industries: consumer lenders. Through fertility clinics and other service providers, financial institutions market and distribute loans specifically to finance acquisition of treatments, drugs, and human eggs. Adoption foundations and agencies advertise for-profit loans to intended parents, while small foundations offer adoption loans that appear to be low-cost financially but may condition loan approval on intended parent characteristics such as religious observance, marital status, sexual orientation, and adherence to traditional gender roles. After discussing how …


Using Insurance Law And Policy To Interpret The Tax Code's Loss And Medical Expense Provisions, Andrew Blair-Stanek Dec 2006

Using Insurance Law And Policy To Interpret The Tax Code's Loss And Medical Expense Provisions, Andrew Blair-Stanek

Andrew Blair-Stanek

No abstract provided.


Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: Why The Incarceration Of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Violates Public Health, Ethical, And Constitutional Principles And Therefore Cannot Be Made Right By Piecemeal Changes To The Insanity Defense, Jennifer Bard Jan 2005

Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: Why The Incarceration Of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Violates Public Health, Ethical, And Constitutional Principles And Therefore Cannot Be Made Right By Piecemeal Changes To The Insanity Defense, Jennifer Bard

Jennifer Bard

The author argues that the problem of adjudicating the mentally ill who commit crimes is too large a societal issue to be resolved by refining the insanity defense. Since this is a threat to the public's health, it is fair to describe the current situation as a public health crisis. First, by not providing adequate mental health resources we create conditions in which people with mental illness find themselves in situations where due to their illness they have the opportunity to commit criminal acts which are causally related to the impairment of their thought process. Second, when people with mental …