2013-05-17T08:45:16Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/insurance-liability.html http://www.rand.org/news/press/2007/07/18/index1.html Jul 18, 2007 Jul 18, 2007

RAND Study Finds Wind Insurance Costly and Scarce on Gulf of Mexico Coast.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/10/20.html Oct 20, 2010 Oct 20, 2010

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, neither the federal government nor the private sector is any closer to developing effective solutions to the problems facing flood and windstorm insurance.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/14.html Mar 14, 2012 Mar 14, 2012

The RAND Corporation, Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) and private investors have launched a company named Praedicat, Inc., that will provide consulting services and software to the property and casualty insurance industries.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031113.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>This paper examines the impact of the liability crisis on Pennsylvania hospitals and the strategies being used to weather the storm, including alternative risk financing and closer ties between hospitals and affiliated physicians. It concludes by connecting these trends to larger medical malpractice policy issues.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070320.html Mar 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007

<p>Some states use physicians' histories of medical malpractice payments to try to reduce the incidence of medical malpractice (and for other reasons). At least two types of policies fall into this category: using payments to decide which physicians will be investigated, and possibly sanctioned, by the state medical board; and making information about individual physicians' payment histories available to the public.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090427.html Jul 7, 2009 Jul 7, 2009

This research is an initial step toward creating policies to address autonomous vehicle technologies—which have the potential to enormously benefit humankind but raise substantial concern about tort liability for damages that may result from their use.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51355.html Jun 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009

This report will share findings from the field on how eight regional health information organizations (RHIOs) have navigated various issues and challenges associated with liability insurance for health information exchange (HIE).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1199.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

The question of whether an automobile accident victim should be allowed to bring a claim for punitive damages for unfair settlement practices against another person's liability insurer &mdash; a so-called third-party, bad faith suit &mdash; has become an important policy concern.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG949.html Dec 10, 2009 Dec 10, 2009

<p>California's workers' compensation insurance market will remain vulnerable to wide swings in performance unless changes are made to improve the predictability of costs, transparency of pricing decisions, regulatory oversight and consistency of the incentives facing different parties.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2418.html Jan 1, 1985 Jan 1, 1985

"No-fault" automobile insurance plans are designed to supplant the tort system by requiring motorists to purchase no-fault insurance and allowing victims to file liability insurance claims and tort suits only if their injuries exceed a legislated ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP284.html Oct 20, 2010 Oct 20, 2010

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, neither the federal government nor the private sector is any closer to developing effective solutions to the problems facing flood and windstorm insurance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5885.html Jan 1, 1977 Jan 1, 1977

An overview of large technological systems in society to ascertain the prevalence of situations that can lead to catastrophic effects where the resultant liabilities far exceed the insurance or assets subject to suit in court, thereby imposing de fac...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5940.html Jan 1, 1978 Jan 1, 1978

Reviews large technological systems to locate situations that have potential for catastrophes in which liabilities exceed insurance or assets, thereby imposing de facto limits on liability recoveries. Such events as an LNG explosion in a population ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7547.html Jan 1, 1988 Jan 1, 1988

Using data derived primarily from the Health Insurance Experiment, this paper analyzes the relationship between medical costs and user co-payment liability. The analysis shows that the increase of insurance deductibles reduces medical costs by discou...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/summer2004/35.html

Is there a cure of the current medical malpractice crisis?

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9558.html Oct 8, 2010 Oct 8, 2010

In light of what occurred after Katrina and the other 2004-2005 hurricanes, the authors propose goals for an effective Gulf Coast residential insurance market and highlight policy reforms that warrant consideration for achieving those goals.

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<em>Senior Economist</em><br>Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in political science, B.S. in general engineering, Stanford University