BACKGROUND Adverse events are frequent in clinical practice, but only a few studies in Saudi Arabia have addressed them. The current study was designed to review the lawsuits against healthcare professionals by analyzing records of the cases dealt with by the Medico-legal Committees (MLC) in various provinces in Saudi Arabia, in order to determine the pattern of medical errors and litigations i...

This study examines whether personal liability for corporate malfeasance deters individuals from serving as independent directors. After the introduction of in India, we find that are deterred on boards. We stronger deterrence among firms with greater litigation and regulatory risk, higher monitoring costs, weak monetary incentives. Expert directors more likely to exit, resulting 1.16% lower fi...

This paper evaluates alternative rules of liability and compensation for occupational disease. The criterion applied is minimization of the sum of the costs associated with occupational disease, disease prevention, uninsured risk costs, and litigation and insurance overhead or transaction costs. Options considered include the workers' compensation system, the tort system, first party insurance,...

In 1990, J. Robert Prichard released his report (1) to the Conference of Deputy Ministers on “Liability and Compensation in Health Care.” He concluded that from 1975 to 1990 there had been significant growth in the frequency and severity of malpractice claims, insurance premiums and the cost of malpractice litigation. Despite this growth, only about ten percent of persons suffering avoidable he...

The litigation cost rule relates to which of the two parties in a civil lawsuit has to pay the legal costs. In those countries where the American system applies, each has to pay their own legal costs. In most other countries, the British system applies and the loser pays all the legal costs. By means of a single person decision-theoretic model, I examine the effects of this on auditing and fina...

We study how different rules for allocating litigation costs impact on royalty negotiation when a non-practicing patent holder asserts its patent against a product developer. A theoretical framework is proposed which distinguishes between three legal cost allocation systems: the American system, where each party bears its own costs, the British system, where the loser incurs all costs, and the ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the annual cost of treating pressure ulcers in the UK. DESIGN Costs were derived from a bottom-up methodology, based on the daily resources required to deliver protocols of care reflecting good clinical practice. SETTING Health and social care system in the UK. SUBJECTS Patients developing a pressure ulcer. METHODS A bottom-up costing approach is used to estimate t...