Medical Malpractice Arbitration Act: Michigan's Experience with Arbitration

Medical Malpractice Arbitration Act: Michigan's experience with arbitration.

In the 1970's, Michigan and other states were confronted with a medical malpractice crisis of astronomical proportions. The escalating number of medical malpractice lawsuits and concomitant increase in malpractice premiums for health care providers fostered a divisive climate among doctors, lawyers and patients. In response to this crisis, the Michigan legislature enacted the Medical Malpractic...

Fixing the Mandatory Arbitration Problem: We Need the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

[The National Medical Arbitration Commission: 20 years].

Cuando la Secretaría de Salud todavía tenía el logotipo azul que decía SSA, corrían tiempos difíciles porque no había dinero y la idea de crear nuevas instituciones era recibida con reservas, no sólo por el Presidente Zedillo, siempre generoso y atento a las necesidades de salud de la población, sino también, como ya es costumbre, por el secretario de Hacienda, responsable de cuidar el erario p...

Mediation, arbitration and negotiation

We compare three common dispute resolution processes — negotiation, mediation, and arbitration — in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). Under negotiation, the two parties engage in (possibly arbitrarily long) face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third party who makes a non-binding recommendation. Under arbitration, the two parties commit to co...

Your First International Arbitration: Do’s and Don’ts What’s Wrong with Arbitration?

When it comes to fairness in modern U.S. insurance and reinsurance arbitrations (hereafter “insurance arbitrations”), perception is arguably as important as reality. If the parties do not perceive the process to be fair, they will not embrace arbitration as an alternative to litigation regardless of whether it is cheaper or faster. Central to the parties’ perception of fairness is the compositi...