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The estimates also omit courts' administrative costs, but those are thought to be relatively small. An estimate from the RAND Institute for Civil Justice cited by Tillinghast-Towers Perrin puts those costs at 1 percent of total direct costs.
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9. Versions of this approach that would limit contingent fees for court judgments but not for voluntary settlements would have the additional effect of giving plaintiffs' attorneys more incentive to settle. Again, that effect is clearly inefficient in a simple textbook world, but it may improve efficiency if other factors currently bias attorneys against settlement and toward trial. 10.
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In another study, they found a lower incidence of prenatal care in areas with a high risk for medical malpractice claims. See Dubay and others, "The Impact of Malpractice Fears on Cesarean Section Rates," Journal of Health Economics, vol.
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(2) Some increases in government regulation might also occur. From the standpoint of efficiency, eliminating tort liability would have several desirable implications, although it would fall short of the ideal. It would give potential victims the incentive to take all cost-effective precautions and to obtain the optimal amount of risk spreading through insurance or other compensation contracts. And provided that the insurance and contract terms were clear enough, the amount of litigation would decline significantly, reducing both transaction costs and the inefficiencies associated with erroneous judgments.
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