RAND Institute for Civil Justice Publications

Journal Article

Jan 22, 2021

The Effect of Mandatory Insurer Reporting on Settlement Delay

This article examines this problem empirically, using a rich, national data set of closed automobile bodily injury claims.

Paul Heaton

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

This article uses data from the After the J.D. study to compare standard Blinder-Oaxaca measures of earnings discrimination to self-reported measures of client discrimination, other work-related discrimination, and harassment.

Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Eric Helland

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Cover: Product Liability and Moral Hazard

Product Liability and Moral Hazard: Evidence from General Aviation

We estimate the impact of tort liability on a subset of consumers who have significant control over the probability of an accident: consumers of general aviation aircraft.

Eric Helland, Alexander Tabarrok

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies

This paper concerns single-firm event studies, which are especially important in the context of securities litigation. Event studies can be used to address directly the materiality and loss causation elements.

Jonah Gelbach, Eric Helland, Jonathan Klick

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Does It Matter Who Pays for Auto Injuries?

In many states, auto insurers rather than health insurers pay for a substantial fraction of the medical care following auto crashes.

Paul Heaton, Eric Helland

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

The Role of Ideology in Judicial Evaluations of Experts

This article tests the legal realist theory of judicial behavior, which posits that judges' ideology impacts their legal decisions, but that the law constrains the judges' ability to exercise those preferences.

Eric Helland

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Medicare Secondary Payer and Settlement Delay

The Medicare Secondary Payer Act of 1980 and its subsequent amendments led to a delay in the resolution of disputes involving auto accidents of about six months.

Eric Helland, Jonathan Klick

Journal Article

Dec 11, 2020

Cover: Unintended Consequences of Products Liability

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

This article explains a surprising effect of tort liability in the market for prescription drugs: punitive damages shift liability from doctors to drug companies, but not when physician malpractice liability is limited."

Eric Helland, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Anup Malani, Seth A. Seabury

Journal Article

Sep 30, 2020

A Policy Review of Employers' Open Access to Conviction Records

In this review, we find that (a) US employers' use of conviction information is not clearly aligned with the risk of future criminal behavior or employer costs, and (b) using such information leads to hiring errors that pose costs to society.

Shawn D. Bushway, Nidhi Kalra

Journal Article

Jul 31, 2020

The Public Health Value of Opioid Litigation

This article proceeds in three parts: discussions of the general goals and role of public health tort litigation, the demonstrated and potential value of opioid litigation to achieve public health goals, and a conclusion.

Rebecca Lee Haffajee

Report

Jan 31, 2020

Cover: Industrial Cancers in California's Workers' Compensation System

Industrial Cancers in California's Workers' Compensation System: Evidence on Earnings Losses and Disability Benefits

In this report, the authors conduct an empirical analysis of earnings losses, disability ratings, and benefit payments for occupational cancer claims in the California workers' compensation system.

Michael Dworsky, Carolyn M. Rutter

Journal Article

Jan 14, 2020

Medicaid Coverage Expansions and Liability Insurance

This article offers some of the first rigorous evidence regarding the impacts of health coverage expansions targeting the low-income population on use of the tort system, as proxied by insurance payouts.

Paul Heaton, Caleb Flint

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The Effect of Mandatory Insurer Reporting on Settlement Delay

Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Product Liability and Moral Hazard: Evidence from General Aviation

Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies

Does It Matter Who Pays for Auto Injuries?

The Role of Ideology in Judicial Evaluations of Experts

Medicare Secondary Payer and Settlement Delay

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

A Policy Review of Employers' Open Access to Conviction Records

The Public Health Value of Opioid Litigation

Industrial Cancers in California's Workers' Compensation System: Evidence on Earnings Losses and Disability Benefits

Medicaid Coverage Expansions and Liability Insurance

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