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Litigation Risk and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from Legal Changes
Accounting Review, 2019This paper documents that changes in litigation risk affect corporate voluntary disclosure practices. We make causal inferences by exploiting three legal events that generate exogenous variations in firms' litigation risk.
J. Houston, Chen Lin, Sibo Liu, Lai Wei
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Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2005
The law in relation to clinical practice is specialised and complex. Most practitioners have a rudimentary understanding of the basic concepts. This chapter explores the principles of duty of care, breach and causation, and how-using case law-they are applied to neonatal care.
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The law in relation to clinical practice is specialised and complex. Most practitioners have a rudimentary understanding of the basic concepts. This chapter explores the principles of duty of care, breach and causation, and how-using case law-they are applied to neonatal care.
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2015
Abstract: This entry provides an overview of the main economic models of settlement and litigation decisions. Starting from the basic models, as developed by Landes (J Law Econ 14:61108, 1971), Posner (J Leg Stud (00472530) 2:399, 1973), and Gould (J Leg Stud, 279300, 1973), we describe the evolution in literature toward the application of bargaining ...
Bielen, Samantha +2 more
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Abstract: This entry provides an overview of the main economic models of settlement and litigation decisions. Starting from the basic models, as developed by Landes (J Law Econ 14:61108, 1971), Posner (J Leg Stud (00472530) 2:399, 1973), and Gould (J Leg Stud, 279300, 1973), we describe the evolution in literature toward the application of bargaining ...
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Shareholder litigation rights and stock price crash risk
, 2020We study the impact of shareholder-initiated litigation risk on a firm's stock price crash risk. Our empirical analysis takes advantage of the staggered adoption of universal demand laws, which led to an exogenous decline in derivative litigation risk ...
Ivan Obaydin +4 more
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Dental Clinics of North America, 1982
Countersuit litigation brings into sharp focus some difficult and conflicting concepts in law and social policy. A point that seems reasonably self-evident is that the existence of a viable countersuit remedy in most states has not produced the huge volume of litigation that might create a "chilling effect" upon access to the courts, and it is not ...
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Countersuit litigation brings into sharp focus some difficult and conflicting concepts in law and social policy. A point that seems reasonably self-evident is that the existence of a viable countersuit remedy in most states has not produced the huge volume of litigation that might create a "chilling effect" upon access to the courts, and it is not ...
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Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2020
We exploit staggered state-level shocks to third-party auditor legal liability in the U.S. to test whether auditor litigation risk affects client companies' access to private debt markets.
Mahfuz Chy, G. Franco, Barbara Su
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We exploit staggered state-level shocks to third-party auditor legal liability in the U.S. to test whether auditor litigation risk affects client companies' access to private debt markets.
Mahfuz Chy, G. Franco, Barbara Su
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Annual Review of Sociology, 1989
Litigation, in ordinary speech, refers to actions contested in court; this involves a claim, a dispute or conflict, and the use of a specific institution, the court, to resolve the conflict or dispute. In the past most legal research has consisted of analysis of doctrine and theory about doctrine.
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Litigation, in ordinary speech, refers to actions contested in court; this involves a claim, a dispute or conflict, and the use of a specific institution, the court, to resolve the conflict or dispute. In the past most legal research has consisted of analysis of doctrine and theory about doctrine.
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Shareholder litigation rights and corporate acquisitions
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020We examine the effect of shareholder litigation rights on managers' acquisition decisions. Our experimental design exploits a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on July 2, 1999 that resulted in a reduction in shareholder class actions.
C. Chung +4 more
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Injury, 1990
In accident surgery, there is an infinite potential for mistakes. Both the Medical Defence Union and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) confirm that doctors in the front line of trauma care, and particularly juniors in accident and emergency departments, are most likely to be accused of negligence. Between 1986 and 1988, 5 per cent of MPS claims were
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In accident surgery, there is an infinite potential for mistakes. Both the Medical Defence Union and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) confirm that doctors in the front line of trauma care, and particularly juniors in accident and emergency departments, are most likely to be accused of negligence. Between 1986 and 1988, 5 per cent of MPS claims were
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