The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 tackles many health care-related issues, but medical malpractice liability reform is not one of them. Despite being a perennial target of health care reform -- with accompanying assertions that a medical malpractice liability crisis is...

The political solution to our health crisis appears to be an expanded health coverage program, perhaps universal and mandatory. Increased coverage is expected to result in affordable (and available) care, which will translate into earlier diagnoses and more effective treatment, which in turn...

This doctoral thesis examines three aspects of industrial safety in the British labour market – the impact of industrial accidents on manufacturing industry wages during the 1970s; the basis for and impact of changes in English common law and employers’ liability rules on the accident rates...

Market forces, supplemented by government policy, affect how firms and households jointly determine product and workplace safety levels. After developing the economic theory of how labor and product markets pair prices and health risks we then explain the effects of the relevant government...

If employers ever have had an incentive to electronically monitor employees through video and e-mail surveillance, it is today. Employers increasingly are found vicariously liable for sexual harassment in the workplace, negligent retention claims are being made more frequently, and workplace...

This survey of recent developments includes reports on amendments to the Canada Marine Act, in particular changes that afford port authorities greater access to financing and regulate their governance, allow for the detention of vessels and goods when enforcement officers believe the act or...

This paper examines the compensation systems for industrial accidents in Belgium, Germany and Great Britain, thereby taking into account some recent empirical data on industrial accident rates and (although hardly available) amounts of compensation paid out to employee victims. The key question...

While regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The disparity between the valuation of prospective risks and fatalities that have...

With an annual budget of about $400 million, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is about 5 percent the size of the Environmental Protection Agency, another federal agency created by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970, the "Year of the Environment." Nearly all workers in the...

The effects of the increase in the employers’ liability on work accidents is under-researched. Here the impact using time series analysis of changes brought about by the Employers’ Liability Act 1880 and Workmens’ Compensation Act 1897 on the UK coal mining fatality rates and wages over...