The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) 2003/88/EC is a Union Directive laying down minimum health and safety requirements for the organisation of working time. Originally primarily intended as labour law, its progressive introduction up to full implementation for doctors-in-training in August 2009 has substantially reduced duty-hours and caused widespread concern in surgery. Detrimental eff...

Patient safety research in human medicine has identified the causes and common types of medical error and subsequently informed the development of interventions which mitigate harm, such as the WHO's safe surgery checklist. There is no such evidence available to the veterinary profession. This study therefore aims to identify the causes and types of errors in veterinary practice, and presents a...

Attorneys, insurers, and psychiatrists frequently find themselves metaphorical bed partners. This co-tenancy can be convivial, even occasionally fruitful. Such an instance involves a case in which a man who in the process of attempting to obtain sexual gratification asphyxiated to death. A double indemnity death benefits policy was in force. The insurer refused to pay, contending that the decea...

In this paper, we study an optimal insurance problem for a risk-averse individual who seeks to maximize the rank-dependent expected utility (RDEU) of her terminal wealth, and is priced via general distortion-deviation premium principle. We prove necessary sufficient conditions satisfied by solution consider three orders between distortion functions buyer seller further determine indemnity. Fina...

Basis risk or residual arising from disparity between an index’s estimate of losses and actual is inherent in index-based insurance products. We approximate basis as the false negative probability (FNP) within pasture, rangeland, forage (PRF) rainfall index for south-central coastal region California. FNP on average that at least one two selected coverage intervals will fail to provide indemnit...