Canadians place importance on the provision of universal health care and value their current scheme for the fact that distribution of services is based upon need rather than fault or income. However, to provide this level of service provincial and federal governments, of all political stripes, face a delicate balance of three constraints; cost of health care, cost of other income maintenance sc...

All substantive areas of law, with no exception, have a common concern for the processes by which legal disputes get resolved. Naturally, the success of any particular litigation strategy in a legal dispute depends on several factors, such as procedural costs, the judges’ accuracy and, most importantly, the litigation strategy followed by the counterpart. Previous work within the legal scholars...

All substantive areas of law with no exception have a common concern for the processes by which legal disputes get resolved. Naturally, the success of any particular litigation strategy in a legal dispute depends on a number of factors. Examples of influential factors are procedural costs, the judge’s accuracy and, most importantly, the litigation strategy followed by the counterpart in dispute...

Policymakers are considering legislative changes that would increase managed care organizations’ exposure to civil liability for withholding coverage or failing to deliver needed care. Using a combination of empirical information and theoretical analysis, we assess the likely responses of health plans and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan sponsors to an expansion of liability...

Document classification is the task of grouping documents into categories based upon their content never before has it been as important as it is today. The exponential growth of unstructured data combined with a marked increase in litigation, security and privacy rules have left organizations utterly unable to cope with the conflicting demands of the business, lawyers and regulators. The net i...

Policymakers are considering legislative changes that would increase managed care organizations' exposure to civil liability for withholding coverage or failing to deliver needed care. Using a combination of empirical information and theoretical analysis, we assess the likely responses of health plans and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan sponsors to an expansion of liability...