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1983
Costs of the Civil Justice System: Court Expenditures for Various Types of Civil Cases
Analyzes the cost of processing domestic relations, mental health, probate and guardianship, property rights and condemnation, torts contracts and other civil complaints, and other civil petitions cases.
Court-Administered Arbitration: An Alternative for Consumer Dispute Resolution
This Note presents the preliminary results of a year-long study of the Pittsburgh (Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas) arbitration program.
Designing Safer Products: Corporate Responses to Product Liability Law and Regulation
Analyzes ways in which firms have responded to recent changes in pressures to design safer products, using interviews with product safety officials in major manufacturers and extensive analysis of legal and scholarly literatures.
Jury Awards and Prejudgment Interest in Tort Cases
Reports the preliminary results of research which empirically examines issues central to the prejudgment interest policy debate.
New Tools for Reducing Civil Litigation Expenses
The resolution of civil liability claims is an expensive and uncertain process. Frequent parties to civil litigation face growing costs, but they might reduce the expense and uncertainty of litigation through new methods for using computers.
Regulating the Content and Volume of Litigation: An Economic Analysis
In recent years, courts and legislatures have used rules that shift liability for court costs and attorneys' fees to plaintiffs or defendants to achieve two different objectives: to encourage litigation by particular plaintiffs ...
Simple Justice: How Litigants Fare in the Pittsburgh Court Arbitration Program
Examines the arbitration program of the Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) Court of Common Pleas which at the time of the study applied to cases of $10,000 or less.
1982
The Civil Jury: Trends in Trials and Verdicts, Cook County, Illinois, 1960-1979, Executive Summary
This is an executive summary of R-2881-ICJ.
The Civil Jury: Trends in Trials and Verdicts, Cook County, Illinois, 1960-1979
This report presents the results of an extensive examination of the decisions made by litigants, courts, and juries in a large number of civil jury trials.
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Voluntary Safety Standards for Consumer Products
The purpose of this study is to explore the opportunities for expanding the use of cost-benefit analysis, to discuss the problems standing in the way, and to suggest experiments with it that can serve as benchmarks for further application.
Costs of the Civil Justice System: Court Expenditures for Processing Tort Cases
This report deals with government expenditures for processing tort cases, drawing on available data from federal and state agencies
Educational Policymaking Through the Civil Justice System
Analyzes the use of the civil justice system to decide the allocation of public services, in particular the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act.
The Frequency and Severity of Medical Malpractice Claims
This report presents some empirical evidence on the contribution of various factors to the diversity in the frequency and severity of claims across states and over time.
Managerial Judges
A study of the recent development of case management by federal judges during both the pretrial and posttrial phases of litigation.
The Pace of Litigation: Conference Proceedings
Reports the proceedings of a conference dealing with past and planned empirical investigation of the delay of litigation.
The Resolution of Medical Malpractice Claims: Research Results and Policy Implications
In the early 1970s, both the frequency of medical malpractice claims and the dollar awards to successful plaintiffs rose at unprecedented rates. In 1974-1975, the malpractice insurance crisis erupted.
The Resolution of Medical Malpractice Claims: Modeling the Bargaining Process
This report makes two contributions to the area of legal studies.
Settlement out of court: the disposition of medical malpractice claims
The main purpose of this paper is to present empirical estimates of a model of the disposition of claims through the courts. A second purpose of the paper is to provide evidence relevant to the policy debate over tort reform. The theoretical model i...
Workers' Compensation and Workplace Safety: Some Lessons from Economic Theory
This report uses the tools of economic theory to analyze how firms can be expected to respond to financial incentives.
Workers' Compensation and Workplace Safety: The Nature of Employer Financial Incentives
... data and methods needed to examine the nature, size, and adequacy of Workers' Compensation (WC) financial incentives for prevention, and hence to evaluate the conventional wisdom about WC and safety.
1981
Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory
This report is an inventory of state and local trial court procedures to reduce pretrial delay of civil cases. It lists and describes techniques employed by the courts to combat pretrial delay in all 50 state court systems,...
Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory: Executive Summary
This is an executive summary of R-2732.
Judicial Arbitration in California: The First Year
A study of the critical implementation phase of the California judicial arbitration program. The report begins by identifying the primary objectives of the program's supporters.
Judicial Arbitration in California: The First Year: Executive Summary
A study of the critical implementation phase of the California judicial arbitration program.
Models of Legal Decisionmaking: Research Design and Methods
Describes how the application of rule-based computer models could provide valuable information to the settlement process in civil litigation.
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