With the development of China's economy and society, civil false litigation cases have shown a high incidence trend, which seriously disrupts judicial order in our country, wastes resources, damages authority. Although China has introduced series measures field regulating litigation, further improvement is still needed. Starting from practice, this article summarizes frequent analyzes causes ca...

We theorize a multi-dimensional picture of jurisdictional competition for corporate litigation. We test this theory by examining merger litigation in a hand-collected sample of I 117 takeovers from 2005 to 20I I. We find evidence of state competition for merger litigation. Entrepreneurial plaintiffs' attorneys drive this competition by bringing suits in jurisdictions which have previously award...

In a quotation which opens the very first section of Kenneth Allen de Ville's magnificent work "Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America" [1], the author cites J.R. Weist's 1884 observation on the malpractice law suits of the time, that the "remedy of these evils in the profession involves many and grave problems in sociology which I cannot now stop to consider" [2]. He might well have...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To identify allegations raised in litigation stemming from pediatric otolaryngologic procedures and conditions. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a legal database. METHODS The authors reviewed jury verdict and settlement reports on the WestlawNext database from 1994 to 2013 for cases involving pediatric plaintiffs and alleged negligence in otolaryngologic procedur...

Injuries and the law are connected in many important ways. The law can be a powerful tool for reducing the risk of injury (1). Laws can compel certain individual behaviors, such as seatbelt use, and prohibit other behaviors, such as speeding, to protect the safety of us all. Laws can also require product manufacturers to design and market their products in a manner that will reduce the likeliho...

BACKGROUND To explore the likely influence and impact of shared decision-making on medical malpractice litigation and patients' intentions to initiate litigation. METHODS We included all observational, interventional and qualitative studies published in all languages, which assessed the effect or likely influence of shared decision-making or shared decision-making interventions on medical mal...

The article by Madison et al. (1) contains major omissions, errors, and mis-statements which we feel compelled to bring to your attention. First and foremost is the authors' failure to mention the source of their funding. This study was funded by lawyers for approximately 70 persons (including all 42 of the "exposed subjects") (2). Rather than being merely passive financiers of the study, the l...

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The desire to obtain explanations and redress for the impairments that are a consequence of neurological disability is unsurprising, and so far as the parents of disabled children are concerned is a component of their adaptation. One manifestation of this seen frequently in North America, Britain, and Australia but less extensively elsewhere, is that legal claims for damages are made by parents...