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The Frequency and Severity of Medical Malpractice Claims: New Evidence

Law and Contemporary Problems, 1986
Physicians have been liable for medical malpractice since the eighteenth century in the United States, but malpractice claims were rare until recently. In the late 1960's the frequency of claims per physician and claim severity (size of award per paid claim) began to increase at unprecedented rates, culminating in the medical malpractice insurance ...
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
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A COMPOUND CYCLIC POISSON STOCHASTIC MODEL FOR PREMIUM DETERMINATION IN WEATHER INDEXED AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE: CASE STUDY IN SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Barekeng
The agricultural sector in developing countries is highly susceptible to significant losses due to weather variability and seasonal risks. Existing premium calculation methods often rely on homogeneous risk assumptions, which fail to account for claim ...
Ika Reskiana Adriani, Miftahulkhairah Miftahulkhairah, Gemala Hardinasinta, Hafidzah Hafidzah   +3 more
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Forecasting the maximum compensation offer in the automobile BI claims negotiation proces. [PDF]

Most motor bodily injury (BI) claims are settled by negotiation, with fewer than 5% of cases going to court. A well-defined negotiation strategy is thus very useful for insurance companies.
Mercedes Ayuso, Miguel Santolino
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An Empirical Analysis of the Medical Informed Consent Doctrine: Search for a Standard of Disclosure [PDF]

, 1991
Informed consent and its conceptual equivalents, e.g., right-to-know, are increasingly important. The author discusses the development of the informed consent doctrine in tort cases and attempts to evaluate the consistency of its application.
Merz, Jon F.
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Volatility analysis and forecasting of vegetable prices using an ARMA‐GARCH model: An application of the CF filter and seasonal adjustment method to Korean green onions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The vegetable market experiences significant price fluctuations due to the complex interplay of trend, cyclical, seasonal, and irregular factors. This study takes Korean green onions as an example and employs the Christiano–Fitzgerald filter and the CensusX‐13 seasonal adjustment methods to decompose its price into four components: trend ...
Yiyang Qiao, Byeong‐il Ahn
wiley   +1 more source

Acute and post-acute respiratory complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection: population-based cohort study in South Korea and Japan

Nature Communications
Considering the significant burden of post-acute COVID-19 conditions among patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, we aimed to identify the risk of acute respiratory complications or post-acute respiratory sequelae.
Yujin Choi, Hyeon Jin Kim, Jaeyu Park, Myeongcheol Lee, Sunyoung Kim, Ai Koyanagi, Lee Smith, Min Seo Kim, Masoud Rahmati, Hayeon Lee, Jiseung Kang, Dong Keon Yon   +11 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
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A Generalized Linear Model and Machine Learning Approach for Predicting the Frequency and Severity of Cargo Insurance in Thailand’s Border Trade Context

Risks
The study compares model approaches in predictive modeling for claim frequency and severity within the cross-border cargo insurance domain. The aim is to identify the optimal model approach between generalized linear models (GLMs) and advanced machine ...
Praiya Panjee, Sataporn Amornsawadwatana
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source