introduction: medical claim is one of the most concerning subjects for both patients and physicians. in addition, it has lots of financial and nonfinancial costs for health care systems. to define the number and causes of medical claims against dentists of rasht since 2006 till 2011in guilan medical council. materials and methods: a retrospective cross - sectional study was performed since 2006...

A recent argument in favor of a free market in human organs claims that such a market enhances personal autonomy. I argue here that such a market would, on the contrary, actually compromise the autonomy of those most likely to sell their organs, namely, the least well off members of society. A Marxian-inspired notion of exploitation is deployed to show how, and in what sense, this is the case.

The dramatic rise in the incidence of malpractice claims over the past thirty years has revealed several problems with the U.S. system of medical dispute resolution. First, the sudden and unexpected increase in claims has created an insurance crisis wherein various medical specialists have had difficulty obtaining affordable insurance coverage. One such crisis occurred in Florida in the mid-198...

We generalize an integral representation for the ruin probability in a Crámer-Lundberg risk model with shifted (or also called US-)Pareto claim sizes, obtained by Ramsay [14], to classical Pareto(a) claim size distributions with arbitrary real values a > 1 and derive its asymptotic expansion. Furthermore an integral representation for the tail of compound sums of Pareto-distributed claims is ob...

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...

In this paper models for claim frequency and average claim size in non-life insurance are considered. Both covariates and spatial random effects are included allowing the modelling of a spatial dependency pattern. We assume a Poisson model for the number of claims, while claim size is modelled using a Gamma distribution. However, in contrast to the usual compound Poisson model, we allow for dep...

This article reviews concepts of classical logic and induction, with special attention to the controversies surrounding Popperian claims that induction is impossible and does not exist. I argue that some of the controversy is semantic, and hence Popperian criticisms of induction must be translated carefully into ordinary language to be appreciated by inductively oriented epidemiologists. With t...