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The Effect of Bad-Faith Laws on First-Party Insurance Claims Decisions
This article describes a study of the legal distinctions among bad-faith laws and provides a theoretical foundation for the authors' hypotheses that bad-faith laws affect both economic and noneconomic damage amounts.
Flawed Promises: A Critical Evaluation of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
This book review describes the system outlined in the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, criticizes several of the authors' key claims, and discusses aspects of the book that are useful and defensible.
The Tort Law Debate, Efficiency, and the Kingdom of the Ill: A Critique of the Insurance Theory of Compensation
This article critiques and in large measure rejects the insurance theory of compensation. It contains an argument that the theory has fundamental failings--both normative and practical--that render it untenable as a primary guide to determining the appropriate compensatory sums in any programmatic setting.
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