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Consumption of such goods and services is likely to decline as their prices are driven up by liability costs or as price increases for products in general leave consumers with less real income. 11. Most of the available evidence about defensive medicine comes from anecdotes or conjectural surveys of practitioners. That evidence does not rule out doctors' own financial incentives under fee-for-service payment systems as an alternative explanation for "unnecessary" tests.
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However, when the class is large enough, even claims that are trivial individually can have a significant effect on particular firms and even whole industries. Limited data are available on class actions, but those cases are more likely than other torts to be filed in federal court. For example, a RAND study estimated that during the 1995-1996 period, 40 percent of reported class-action decisions arose in federal court, whereas CBO estimates that less than 5 percent of all torts are filed in federal court.(33) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.
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Some costs associated with tort liability have been measured, however, and can be used in a limited evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of tort liability as a mechanism for compensating victims. Understanding the nature and magnitude of tort costs can also help policymakers identify options that would tend to control those costs while enhancing the benefits of the tort system.
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) Conversely, one argument against public insurance is that the schedule of damages might not do justice to individual cases. Another is that in some cases of subtle, indirect, or delayed harm--such as cancers with long latencies caused by exposure to a particular chemical-- victims might not recognize that they had suffered a compensable injury, since there would be few, if any, plaintiffs' attorneys working to identify injury causes. In addition, this option would represent a sharp departure from current practice for injuries that are judged under a negligence standard. Providers of medical care, for example, are now held liable only for injuries considered to result from negligence; but with this option, all compensable injuries to patients under their care would be reflected in their assessed premiums for the public fund.
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