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Full-Text Articles in Torts
The Relevance Of Defendants’ Wealth For Forward-Looking, Backward-Looking, And Mixed Accounts Of Tort Damages, Michael Pressman
The Relevance Of Defendants’ Wealth For Forward-Looking, Backward-Looking, And Mixed Accounts Of Tort Damages, Michael Pressman
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
The "Art" Of Future Life: Rethinking Personal Injury Law For The Negligent Deprivation Of A Patient's Right To Procreation In The Age Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Erika N. Auger
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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Dignity Takings, Dignity Restoration: A Tort Law Perspective, Valerie P. Hans
Dignity Takings, Dignity Restoration: A Tort Law Perspective, Valerie P. Hans
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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Third Party Funding Of Personal Injury Tort Claims: Keep The Baby And Change The Bathwater, Terrence Cain
Third Party Funding Of Personal Injury Tort Claims: Keep The Baby And Change The Bathwater, Terrence Cain
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In the early 1990s, a period of high-risk lending at high interest rates, a new entrant emerged in civil litigation: the Litigation Finance Company (“LFC”). LFCs advance money to plaintiffs involved in contingency fee litigation. The money is provided on a non-recourse basis, meaning the plaintiff repays the LFC only if she obtains money from the lawsuit through a settlement, judgment, or verdict. If the plaintiff recovers nothing, she will not owe the LFC anything. When she does repay the LFC, however, she could end up paying as much as 280% of the amount advanced by the LFC. As one …
The Law Of Medical Misadventure In Japan, Robert B. Leflar
The Law Of Medical Misadventure In Japan, Robert B. Leflar
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of Japanese law and practice relating to iatrogenic (medically-caused) injury, with comparisons to other nations' medical law systems. The paper addresses criminal sanctions for Japanese physicians' negligent and illegal acts; civil law principles of substantive law and related issues of procedure, practice, and liability insurance; and administrative measures including health ministry programs aimed at expanding and improving the quality of peer review within Japanese medicine, and a recently implemented no-fault compensation system for birth-related injuries.
Among the paper's findings are these. Criminal and civil actions increased rapidly after highly publicized medical error events at …