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International Journal of Africa Nursing SciencesMedical errors, including execution and planning failures, remain a critical concern in global healthcare. They are the third leading cause of death in some countries and impose severe consequences not only on patients (first victims) but also on ...
Pardis Roumiani +2 more
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BMW of North America v. Gore: A Misplaced Guide for Punitive Damage Awards
, 1997 This casenote examines the Supreme Court\u27s landmark ruling in BMW v. Gore, in which the Court struck down a jury award of punitive damages as being unreasonably large in violation of substantive due process.
Carey, Michelle J.
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Juries, Hindsight, and Punitive Damage Awards: Failures of a Social Science Case for Change
, 1999 In their recent Arizona Law Review article entitled What Juries Can\u27t Do Well: The Jury\u27s Performance As a Risk Manager,\u27 Professors Reid Hastie and W.
Lempert, Richard O.
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The Dubious Extension of Punitive Damage Recovery in Pennsylvania Products Liability Law
, 1985 The appropriateness of the recovery of punitive damages in products liability litigation has increasingly been called into question as being ineffective in accomplishing the intended purpose of this form of recovery, as well as being fundamentally unfair
Brooks, Jeffrey, G.
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The Punitive Damages Calculus: The Differential Incidence of State Punitive Damages Reforms
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 State punitive damages reforms have altered how courts award punitive damages. We model the decision to award punitive damages as a two-step process involving the decision to award any punitive damages and the decision of what amount to award. For the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts samples of trial court verdicts, punitive damages caps reduce the
Benjamin J. McMichael, W. Kip Viscusi
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Imposing Punitive Damage Liabiliity on the Intoxicated Driver
, 2015 It is important to keep in mind throughout this discussion that awareness and acknowledgement of the existence of a problem, even a very serious problem, should not make us overreact and thereby accept an unworkable solution in our zeal to do something ...
Kotler, Martin A.
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Punitive Damages as Societal Damages
The Yale Law Journal, 2003 I. EXISTING CONCEPTIONS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES AND PLAINTIFFS’ WINDFALL GAINS 356 A. Punishment and Retribution: The Individual Harm Paradigm.... 359 B. Deterrence: The Societal Harm Paradigm 363 1. Economic Theory: The Internalization of Full Costs 365 2. The Punitive Damages “Multiplier” and Its Limitations ...... 367 C. The Plaintiff’s Windfall as
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Punitive Damages: Toward a Principled Approach
, 1980 Examining the policy considerations underlying the award of punitive damages, the authors conclude that, contrary to the views of punitive damage abolitionists, there are circumstances in which punitive damages are appropriate.
Roberts, Barry, Mallor, Jane
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Nursing Reports(1) Background: This article addresses the harmful traditional practice of breast ironing, which primarily affects girls and adolescents in several countries, particularly in Cameroon.
Rosa M. Cárdaba-García +9 more
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Punitive Damages and Valuing Harm
, 2007 In 2003, the Supreme Court created a presumption that only single-digit ratios of punitive damages to compensatory damages would satisfy substantive due process limits.
Klass, Alexandra +2 more
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