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The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: A Comparison Of Medical Malpractice Trials In North Carolina And Virginia, 2000-2010i, Ralph Peeples, Catherine Harris

Ralph Peeples

The paper begins with an abstract. Please see the manuscript.

Getting Away With Murder (Most Of The Time): A Sesquicentennial Analysis Of Civil War Era Homicide Cases In Boone County, Missouri, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Frank O. Bowman III

In the quarter century centered on the Civil War, 1850-1875, fifty-three homicide cases came before the courts of Boone County, Missouri, of which Columbia, home of the University of Missouri, is the county seat. To remarkable degree, the story of these killings, told in this article, is a chronicle of the place and period.

The article’s method might be described as “murder as social history.” Its narrative thread is an effort to explain the remarkable fact that only twelve of the fifty-three defendants charged with murder were ever convicted of any form of criminal homicide. The explanation requires an introduction …

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: A Comparison Of Medical Malpractice Trials In Virginia And North Carolina, Ralph Peeples, Catherine Harris

Ralph Peeples

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. North Carolina does not. The primary source of our data are closed insurance records made available by an insurance company that provides malpractice coverage for physicians in both states. We are thus able to report on a number of attributes of these trials, including demographic data, injury severity, outcome at trial, physician specialty, medical allegations, and insurer assessment of the cases.Much …