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- Title
JURIES AND JUSTICE: ARE MALPRACTICE AND OTHER PERSONAL INJURIES CREATED EQUAL?
- Authors
BOVBJERG, RANDALL R.; SLOAN, FRANK A.; DOR, AVI; CHEE RUEY HSIEH
- Abstract
The article discusses a study on the differences between jury verdicts for malpractice and other personal injury defendants and automobile defendants particularly in medical malpractice cases and analyzes reasons for said differences. The jury verdicts in selected types of cases where assessed as a lens to focus on the larger issues of jury performance and extra-judicial reform. It cites the need to understand how claimants and lawyers select cases for trial in order to understand jury verdicts. It concludes that adjusted malpractice awards are nearly three times larger than automobile awards, that lawyers representing injured patients are not earning excessive compensation and rejects the selection-by-unobserved severity hypothesis.
- Subjects
VERDICTS; LEGAL judgments; MEDICAL malpractice; PERSONAL injuries (Law); ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); ATTORNEY &; client
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1991, Vol 54, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191855