Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

BACKGROUND "High-liability risk specialties" tend to be the focus of medical malpractice system research and debate, but concerns and fears are not limited to this group. The objective of this study was to examine whether "high-liability risk" medical specialties have a different experience with the malpractice system than "low-liability risk" specialties. METHODS We reviewed claims data from...

Physicians typically carry virtually complete malpractice insurance coverage. This contradicts standard theoretical predictions that under a negligence rule of liability there should be no demand for insurance, and insurance policies under moral hazard will contain co-payment provisions. It is argued that judicial 'errors' in defining negligence generate a demand for liability and legal defense...

The liability regime governing geologic carbon sequestration will shape the technology’s costeffectiveness and overall attractiveness. Key cradle-to-grave issues affecting liability include choice of liability regime, mandates for corrective action in case of leakage or accident, the need for insurance, and determination of potentially responsible parties. Rather than assuming that the existing...

Abstract: Because of the nature their practice and location, community pharmacies subject owners employees to heightened risk from theft, fire, malpractice, among other threats. As a result, liability insurance is required for personnel. This paper describes vulnerability liabilities, as well options benefits they offer. Finally, challenges policy uptake by in low- middleincome countries were i...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...