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Tort Reform An Analysis

Tort reform has been bantered about for decades. Court awards for punitive damages, pain, and suffering are...

Proposed Tort Reform

significant (Albert, 2004). As indicated by the position of the ATLA (1994), "defensive medicine" refers to tests or procedures th...

Issues of Special Interest Groups

first special interest crusaders Ralph Nader, "Corporations already exercise almost total control over legislatures and regulatory...

Connecticut and Malpractice Litigation

was initiated, however, the Sabias settled with Humes for $1.35 million, before then moving on to try to get what they could from ...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

Business Operations' Criminal and Tort Liability Identification and Assessment

is safe from a clients legal right to sue. What is negligence, and why is it such a significant basis for judicial interjection? ...

Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Tort Reform and Medical Malpractice

the implications and recourse citizens have in regard to torts. What determines whether or not an individual seeks tort action an...

Tort Reform Arguments Both For and Against

both pain and suffering and punitive damages. Hofmann (2003) believes that the Presidents: "... call for the reform of medical mal...

School Field Trips, Tort Liability, and In Loco Parentis

In eight pages school settings are considered in an in loco parentis application that discusses field trips and teacher liability ...

Abuses and the Need for Tort Reform in the United States

In seven pages this paper discusses how in the US tort reform is desperatly needed because of system abuses. Six sources are cite...

Hypothetical Legal Case Decisions and American Law

In six pages this paper examines hypothetical legal cases involving concepts such as the 'Necessary and Proper' clause of the US C...

Defense Tort Case Strategies

alcohol consumption prior to the accident as well as blood-alcohol tests, if taken, should be utilized to determine if her drinkin...

The History of the Alien Tort Statute

This was especially important at that time because the United States was very weak in its military sector, and would be unable to ...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Have International Human Rights Really Changed Over the Last Sixty Years?

is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

The Suitability of the Compensation Approach to Tort Awards

South Australia Asset Management Corporation v York Montague Ltd [1997] AC1 demonstrates the way this can be stretched to cover al...

Tort and Economic Loss

duty of care, and that the harm suffered or damage originating from that breach (Card and James, 1998). There is little to ...

The Application of California Labor Law in an Understanding of Vacation Pay

not act within the 72-hour time limit (Important Wage Payment Compliance Issue, 2001). Analysis ABC Company. has acted in e...

TCP and IP Network Protocols

and reliability, the actual mode of transmission of data across the systems largely is accomplished in same manner now as when net...

United Kingdom Business and Environmental Issues

demand for development and the protection of the environment" As such this can be seen as an attempt to regulate and bring togethe...

The Role of Agency Law

and as such increases the commitment to the agency. There is also the application of general contract law where there is a...

Letter of the Law and Freedom of Speech

as the first amendment freedom of speech. The last fifty years have seen case after case weigh heavily the question of censorship ...

Railway and Airline Industry Labor Relations Laws

reach out to rank-and-file workers, who have been demoralized by their immense sacrifices" (pp. 56). The student researching airli...

Comparing U.S. and Jewish Law

distinct discrepancies where application is concerned. Ethical behavior - which is defined as exhibiting "the character and...

A Consideration of Ann Wells' 'Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access'

risks which currently exist in regard to information privacy and eloquently addresses the evolutionary trend toward information ma...

Answering Questions on Directors Duties

Ch 656 it was established that a company could not prevent the ability to make alterations (Davies, 2001). However, this is not as...

Contemporary Business and UK Common Law's Advantages and Disadvantages

formed the basis of whet we now refer to as common law. The principle source of law currently is that of legislation....