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Flawed Promises: A Critical Evaluation of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

Description: 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.
Date: February 1990
Creator: Pryor, Ellen S.
Partner: UNT Dallas College of Law
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The Tort Law Debate, Efficiency, and the Kingdom of the Ill: A Critique of the Insurance Theory of Compensation

Description: 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.
Date: February 1993
Creator: Pryor, Ellen S.
Partner: UNT Dallas College of Law
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