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Administrative costs are insurance companies' overhead expenses. Tillinghast says it includes those expenses because they are "real costs, directly associated with administering the settlement of tort claims.
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Theodore Eisenberg, "Measuring the Deterrent Effect of Punitive Damages," pp. 347-357, and David Luban, "A Flawed Case Against Punitive Damages," pp. 359-380, both in Georgetown Law Journal, vol. 87, no.
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" 7. Jesse David, The Secondary Impacts of Asbestos Liabilities (prepared by NERA Economic Consulting for the U.
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(4) The turn of the 20th century saw public policy increasingly emphasize victim compensation and accident reduction. The enactment of workers' compensation laws--which established a public insurance system aimed at lowering employers' payments while making workers' recovery of damages automatic--played an important role in the evolution of tort law and policy.(5) Before workers' compensation programs, the only remedy that injured workers had was to prove their employers negligent through the tort system. Workers favored legislation instead because they often had been unable to recover damages or had experienced delays or high costs when they had been successful.
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Did you suffer any other injuries that you relate to your use of Zyprexa? ... Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina ... www.classactionamerica.com/affiliates/ gm/classactionlawsuit.asp?lngCaseID=2794 - 63k -
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S. tort system is difficult because no data are available that cover all of the tort cases brought in the various jurisdictions across the country. However, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) provides some data on trends in civil filings in general-jurisdiction courts in several states.(11) It also conducts periodic surveys of civil trials in the nation's 75 largest counties for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
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