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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
(American Journal of Health Economics, 2015)
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias often yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are substantially below the mean VSL estimates. Labor market ...
The Specific Consumer Expectations Test for Product Defects
(Indiana Law Journal, 2020)
The consumer expectations test in products liability law holds firms liable for producing goods that are more dangerous than the reasonable consumer would anticipate. But judicial experience in the majority of states that ...
A Regulatory Policy Strategy for Protecting Immigrant Workers
(Seton Hall Law Review, 2021)
Immigration has become a focal point of many political campaigns, most notably that of President Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. Populist rhetoric also decries immigrant workers for taking Americans' jobs and depressing ...
The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory State
(William & Mary Law Review, 2018)
Although regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The ...
Taming Blockbuster Punitive Damages
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2019)
Blockbuster punitive damages awards, i.e., those awards exceeding $100 million, attract attention based on their sheer size. While there have been fewer such awards in the last decade, they remain an important presence in ...
Medical Malpractice Reform
(Denver Law Review, 2019)
Concerns with medical malpractice liability costs have been a principal factor leading states to adopt a series of tort liability reforms. Medical malpractice premiums have been declining, creating less of a cost-based ...
Efficient Ethical Principles for Making Fatal Choices
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2021)
Resource allocations of all kinds inevitably encounter financial constraints, making it infeasible to make financially unbounded commitments. Such resource constraints arise in almost all health and safety risk contexts, ...
"Sorry" Is Never Enough
(Stanford Law Review, 2019)
Based on case studies indicating that apologies from physicians to patients can promote healing, understanding, and dispute resolution, 38 states have sought to reduce litigation and medical malpractice liability by enacting ...
Damages to Deter Police Shootings
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2021)
Many fatal shootings by police are not warranted. These shootings impose losses on the victims and their families and reflect the failure of existing administrative and legal restraints to deter these unwarranted shootings. ...
The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory state
(William & Mary Law Review, 2018)
While regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The disparity ...