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2000
The Reauthorization of the National Safety Board
Testimony before the Aviation Subcommittee, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on May 6, 1999.
Releasing Small Firms from Superfund Liability: What Will It Cost?
Provides information about proposals to exempt small firms and small-volume contributors, including the number and proportion of business firms that would be released, the proposals' dollar costs, and their effect on firms that would remain liable.
A Research Agenda: What We Need to Know About Court-Connected ADR
Although practitioners of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) have long emphasized the benefits of substituting problem-solving processes for adjudication, empirical studies indicate that ADR may not save litigation costs or time.
Safety in the Skies: Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations
In this report, RAND outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations intended to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) strengthen the party process, create a more expansive statement of causation, modernize investigative procedures, streamline internal operating procedures, better manage resources, maintain a strategic view of staffing, streamline training practices, improve facilities for engineering and training.
Safety in the Skies: Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations-Master Volume
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, RAND used a variety of quantitative and qualitative research techniques to assess the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) operations and processes.
1999
Binding Arbitration is Not Frequently Used to Resolve Health Care Disputes
Sought to provide evidence illuminating the questions of prevalence and factors leading to adoption in a study of practices in California.
Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain, Executive Summary
Class action lawsuits-allowing one or a few plaintiffs to represent many who seek redress-have long been controversial.
Do we need an empirical research agenda on judicial independence?
Do we need an empirical research agenda on judicial independence?
The effect of allowing motorists to opt out of tort law in the United States
The effect of allowing motorists to opt out of tort law in the United States
The Effects of a Choice Automobile Insurance Plan on Insurance Costs and Compensation: An Analysis Based on 1997 Data
Estimate how a choice auto insurance plan, which gives drivers the option of selecting a somewhat modified version of their state's current auto insurance plan or a no-fault plan, would affect auto insurance costs.
Estimating the Effects of No-Pay, No-Play Auto Insurance Plans on the Costs of Auto Insurance: The Effects of Proposition 213
The authors suggest a methodology for estimating the likely effects of plans that restrict compensation to uninsured (or drunk) drivers on the costs of private passenger auto insurance.
A Flood of Litigation? Predicting the Consequences of Changing Legal Remedies Available to ERISA Beneficiaries
Examines assumptions about litigation and the legal system that underlie the fundamental assertions of those for and against changing regulations in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
The Frequency of Excess Claims for Automobile Personal Injuries
This study analyzes the patterns of personal injury claims submitted across the states to estimate the extent of excess claiming.
The frequency of excess claims for automobile personal injuries
The frequency of excess claims for automobile personal injuries
Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages
Recent tort reform debates have been hindered by a lack of knowledge of how jurors assess damages. Two studies investigated whether jurors are able to appropriately compartmentalize compensatory and punitive damages.
How Youthful Offenders Perceive Gun Violence
How Youthful Offenders Perceive Gun Violence
Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain
Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.
Newspaper Coverage of Automotive Product Liability Verdicts
For product liability verdicts during 1983 to 1996 involving automobile manufacturers, the authors examine the amount of coverage in several dozen newspapers.
Product and Stock Market Response to Automotive Product Liability Verdicts
In this paper, the authors attempt to develop information about a narrow but important piece of a very complex puzzle -- the sketchy economic effects of product liability.
Risk Premiums for Environmental Liability: Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital?
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
1998
Arbitration agreements in health care : myths and reality
Arbitration agreements in health care : myths and reality
Building a New Vision for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: Options for Key Policy Decisions
Drawing on over 100 interviews with a wide range of people and organizations, this report identifies issues that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California must address as it reevaluates its role in the Southern California water industry.
Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System
Conducted an evaluation of the California system that comprises both a qualitative portrait of the system's effectiveness and a ground-breaking wage-loss study that sheds new, empirical light on the experiences of injured workers, ...
Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System
This report evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.: Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital?
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
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